Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... father , and after- wards turning robber , could have thought that , from such a condition , he should come to be king of Sicily ? Who that had seen Masaniello , a poor fisherman , with his red cap and his angle , would have reckoned it ...
... father , and after- wards turning robber , could have thought that , from such a condition , he should come to be king of Sicily ? Who that had seen Masaniello , a poor fisherman , with his red cap and his angle , would have reckoned it ...
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... father to his three sons , all born at a birth , of a new coat each - the miraculous virtues of the garments being , that with good keeping they would last them fresh and sound as long as they lived , and that they would grow with the ...
... father to his three sons , all born at a birth , of a new coat each - the miraculous virtues of the garments being , that with good keeping they would last them fresh and sound as long as they lived , and that they would grow with the ...
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... father's death , go forth all together to seek their fortunes . " I shall not trouble you , " says our author , " with recounting what adventures they met with for the first seven years , any further than by taking notice that they ...
... father's death , go forth all together to seek their fortunes . " I shall not trouble you , " says our author , " with recounting what adventures they met with for the first seven years , any further than by taking notice that they ...
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... father's will was very precise ; and it was the main precept in it , with the greatest penalties annexed , not to add to or diminish from their coats one thread , without a positive command in the will . Now the coats their father had ...
... father's will was very precise ; and it was the main precept in it , with the greatest penalties annexed , not to add to or diminish from their coats one thread , without a positive command in the will . Now the coats their father had ...
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... father's man say that he would advise his sons to get gold lace on their coats as soon as ever they could procure ... father in the will to take care of fire and put out their candles before they went to sleep . This , though a good deal ...
... father's man say that he would advise his sons to get gold lace on their coats as soon as ever they could procure ... father in the will to take care of fire and put out their candles before they went to sleep . This , though a good deal ...
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