Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... exclaimed , " that having endeavoured to benefit mankind in my life , my body should do the same to beasts after my death ? " What sepulchre so sublime as the mighty ocean , with its unimagined wonders and sumless treasures , its ever ...
... exclaimed , " that having endeavoured to benefit mankind in my life , my body should do the same to beasts after my death ? " What sepulchre so sublime as the mighty ocean , with its unimagined wonders and sumless treasures , its ever ...
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... exclaimed to his weeping domestics , " Ah ! you will never cry half so much as I have made you laugh ; " and were I on the point of bidding adieu to the public as a scribbler , I should not desire a prouder epitaph than to be truly ...
... exclaimed to his weeping domestics , " Ah ! you will never cry half so much as I have made you laugh ; " and were I on the point of bidding adieu to the public as a scribbler , I should not desire a prouder epitaph than to be truly ...
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... solus , " said an ancient moralist ; and I may reverse the dictum and exclaim , never more alone than when in a mob . I care not COZENING COUSINS AND CAUSTIC COMPLIMENTS . 23 To-day Cozening Cousins and Caustic Compliments.
... solus , " said an ancient moralist ; and I may reverse the dictum and exclaim , never more alone than when in a mob . I care not COZENING COUSINS AND CAUSTIC COMPLIMENTS . 23 To-day Cozening Cousins and Caustic Compliments.
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... exclaim- " No wonder , with thirty thousand pounds - the pill required a good deal of gilding : ” - but still the generosity of these gratuitous donations remains unimpeached . Nor is this munificence confined to females . I was ...
... exclaim- " No wonder , with thirty thousand pounds - the pill required a good deal of gilding : ” - but still the generosity of these gratuitous donations remains unimpeached . Nor is this munificence confined to females . I was ...
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... exclaiming- " Well , there was talent and genius in his former production ; and so I always said , though many thought otherwise , and I am the more surprised that he should publish such miserable trash and rubbish as this . " I have ...
... exclaiming- " Well , there was talent and genius in his former production ; and so I always said , though many thought otherwise , and I am the more surprised that he should publish such miserable trash and rubbish as this . " I have ...
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