Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... thing but her cook's bill of fare , and knows to a nicety when a pullet is well dressed . A solid and discreet man , who ties the matri- monial knot with a woman of this description , understands his true interests : instead of wasting ...
... thing but her cook's bill of fare , and knows to a nicety when a pullet is well dressed . A solid and discreet man , who ties the matri- monial knot with a woman of this description , understands his true interests : instead of wasting ...
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... thing but a good figure , a little talent , and a good many credi- tors . Olympia passing from opulence to penury , in a melan- choly hovel , disinherited by her parents , and forced to make a little kitchen , in a little room , with ...
... thing but a good figure , a little talent , and a good many credi- tors . Olympia passing from opulence to penury , in a melan- choly hovel , disinherited by her parents , and forced to make a little kitchen , in a little room , with ...
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... things , and on several others . " IN Free Translation . In my first letter I did not advert to one depart- ment of literature , that , for the abuses and corrup tions with which it is defiled , may be termed the Au- gæan stable of the ...
... things , and on several others . " IN Free Translation . In my first letter I did not advert to one depart- ment of literature , that , for the abuses and corrup tions with which it is defiled , may be termed the Au- gæan stable of the ...
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... thing that is gentle , touching , and endearing . Perhaps it would not be too much to affirm that the civilization of a state cannot be measured by any surer criterion than the estimation in which these professors are held ; and , that ...
... thing that is gentle , touching , and endearing . Perhaps it would not be too much to affirm that the civilization of a state cannot be measured by any surer criterion than the estimation in which these professors are held ; and , that ...
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... thing , and to listen every where about the palace , " overheard Achil- las the general and Photinus the eunuch plotting against his master , whose life he saved by giving im- mediate information of the conspiracy . His succes- sors to ...
... thing , and to listen every where about the palace , " overheard Achil- las the general and Photinus the eunuch plotting against his master , whose life he saved by giving im- mediate information of the conspiracy . His succes- sors to ...
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