Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... delightful topic is to be rendered una- vailing by such a reductio ad absurdum as the follow- ing ? -Either it rains , or it does not rain - but it rains -therefore it does not rain : or by reversing the po- sition , you may prove that ...
... delightful topic is to be rendered una- vailing by such a reductio ad absurdum as the follow- ing ? -Either it rains , or it does not rain - but it rains -therefore it does not rain : or by reversing the po- sition , you may prove that ...
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... delighted with his eccentricities , from him of Seville down to Dickey Gossip , whose representative , Suett , with his rapid and ready cackle , will not easily be forgotten . Which of us has not laughed at the chattering im- pertinent ...
... delighted with his eccentricities , from him of Seville down to Dickey Gossip , whose representative , Suett , with his rapid and ready cackle , will not easily be forgotten . Which of us has not laughed at the chattering im- pertinent ...
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... delighted with the success of her frolic ! " O Fanny ! Fanny ! " cried the agonised mother , " why did they suffer ? " She could not utter a word more ; but , overcome by her feelings , rushed out of the room , and locked herself F in ...
... delighted with the success of her frolic ! " O Fanny ! Fanny ! " cried the agonised mother , " why did they suffer ? " She could not utter a word more ; but , overcome by her feelings , rushed out of the room , and locked herself F in ...
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... delight in the glory which is rising and full of promise , than in that which has just set and can bestow no more . The ancients divided their annual homage with a less obsequious selfishness . Janus , who stood between the two years ...
... delight in the glory which is rising and full of promise , than in that which has just set and can bestow no more . The ancients divided their annual homage with a less obsequious selfishness . Janus , who stood between the two years ...
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... delight Frequently look'd - or else appear'd to look ; For she took special care to have them seen , As if on purpose to outvie the Queen . Soon to the box - door came a Page , 84 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . The Two Bracelets.
... delight Frequently look'd - or else appear'd to look ; For she took special care to have them seen , As if on purpose to outvie the Queen . Soon to the box - door came a Page , 84 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . The Two Bracelets.
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