Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... complete varnish of fashion and scientific trumpery , she no sooner reaches home than she looks down with scorn upon her own mother , who is for ever breaking poor Priscian's head , and sometimes offends her ear by a pleonasm , and ...
... complete varnish of fashion and scientific trumpery , she no sooner reaches home than she looks down with scorn upon her own mother , who is for ever breaking poor Priscian's head , and sometimes offends her ear by a pleonasm , and ...
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... completing a measure is no argument against its partial adoption . In what may be denominated our external or shop- keepers ' literature , the Society will find innumerable errors to rectify . Where he who runs may read , correctness ...
... completing a measure is no argument against its partial adoption . In what may be denominated our external or shop- keepers ' literature , the Society will find innumerable errors to rectify . Where he who runs may read , correctness ...
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... complete - tout en sucre - a classical group ; Quatre flacons de produits chimiques — a clarified waxen bougie , A Niobe after the Greek , and the Grotto of Pan - en bisquit . And it's oh ! & c . Voilà des chapeaux sanitaires with a ...
... complete - tout en sucre - a classical group ; Quatre flacons de produits chimiques — a clarified waxen bougie , A Niobe after the Greek , and the Grotto of Pan - en bisquit . And it's oh ! & c . Voilà des chapeaux sanitaires with a ...
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... complete ; A bladder with victuals inlaid — a portrait of Louis Dixhuit . And it's oh ! & c . Pour vous dire en détail toutes les choses there's no time , so we'll lump as we pass , Caps , corkscrews , cheese , cucumbers , clothes ...
... complete ; A bladder with victuals inlaid — a portrait of Louis Dixhuit . And it's oh ! & c . Pour vous dire en détail toutes les choses there's no time , so we'll lump as we pass , Caps , corkscrews , cheese , cucumbers , clothes ...
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... complete their journey , though they were always sure to be in their places before the bell had done tolling . In point of fact , the distance saved was not above two hundred yards ; but a foot - path had existed , not only in farmer ...
... complete their journey , though they were always sure to be in their places before the bell had done tolling . In point of fact , the distance saved was not above two hundred yards ; but a foot - path had existed , not only in farmer ...
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