Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1825 - 699 páginas |
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... better quality to be strictly fugitive , he is really unprepared with an an- swer ; unless it may be surmised that their very light- ness may keep them awhile from sinking , as straws and bubbles will float upon those waters of oblivion ...
... better quality to be strictly fugitive , he is really unprepared with an an- swer ; unless it may be surmised that their very light- ness may keep them awhile from sinking , as straws and bubbles will float upon those waters of oblivion ...
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... better of my theory , if it were proved to be inconsistent with facts ; and should assert more strenuously than ever , that the moral is more solid than the physical , and that abstractions are the only true realities . But methinks I ...
... better of my theory , if it were proved to be inconsistent with facts ; and should assert more strenuously than ever , that the moral is more solid than the physical , and that abstractions are the only true realities . But methinks I ...
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... better claim to the title of the North- ern Athens , than the fancied resemblance between the Calton Hill and the Acropolis . Farther north , both mind and body must be expected to degenerate ; and I should no more dream of ideas ...
... better claim to the title of the North- ern Athens , than the fancied resemblance between the Calton Hill and the Acropolis . Farther north , both mind and body must be expected to degenerate ; and I should no more dream of ideas ...
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... better chance of succeeding , in- asmuch as the material upon which I am about to di- late is no fat and filthy compost , but a curious and cleanly powder . Very few are probably aware that there is every year a considerable importation ...
... better chance of succeeding , in- asmuch as the material upon which I am about to di- late is no fat and filthy compost , but a curious and cleanly powder . Very few are probably aware that there is every year a considerable importation ...
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... better than a layer of novel - readers , and you may use up the first bad author that you can disinter for all the poppies you may require . Coffee - house waiters will keep you supplied in cummin ; chronologists furnish the best dates ...
... better than a layer of novel - readers , and you may use up the first bad author that you can disinter for all the poppies you may require . Coffee - house waiters will keep you supplied in cummin ; chronologists furnish the best dates ...
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Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and ..., Volume 1 Horace Smith Visualização integral - 1825 |
Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and ..., Volume 1 Horace Smith Visualização integral - 1825 |
Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and ..., Volume 1 Horace Smith Visualização integral - 1825 |
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