Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... body to deceive , finish by throwing off the mask . Women in search of a husband are au- daciously likened to criminals , who , knowing that they must be ruined by the truth , conceal it by the most complicated subterfuges : the ...
... body to deceive , finish by throwing off the mask . Women in search of a husband are au- daciously likened to criminals , who , knowing that they must be ruined by the truth , conceal it by the most complicated subterfuges : the ...
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... body's fate but their own , and in a game of cards spread out like a fan , in the white of eggs , or the grounds of coffee , show you sweet- hearts as clearly as astrologers perceive inhabitants in the moon . Believe me , these ...
... body's fate but their own , and in a game of cards spread out like a fan , in the white of eggs , or the grounds of coffee , show you sweet- hearts as clearly as astrologers perceive inhabitants in the moon . Believe me , these ...
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... body ; and the gingerbread kings and queens at the same shop being all over gilt , suggest a most traitorous and offensive Paronomasia . I suspect the fellow who deals in these commodities to be a radical . Of the same nature are the ...
... body ; and the gingerbread kings and queens at the same shop being all over gilt , suggest a most traitorous and offensive Paronomasia . I suspect the fellow who deals in these commodities to be a radical . Of the same nature are the ...
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... body , -two acts of barbarity which could not have been perpetrat- ed had the victims been submitted to the benign prac- titioners of the scissors and the razor . The men most remarkable for their hair seem to have been always the most ...
... body , -two acts of barbarity which could not have been perpetrat- ed had the victims been submitted to the benign prac- titioners of the scissors and the razor . The men most remarkable for their hair seem to have been always the most ...
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... bodies , which have great glory and little rest , were harassed and honoured , tipped and tormented , coaxed and cursed . Then was the time that a COURTOIS could amass a princely fortune , which an audacious 40 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... bodies , which have great glory and little rest , were harassed and honoured , tipped and tormented , coaxed and cursed . Then was the time that a COURTOIS could amass a princely fortune , which an audacious 40 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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