The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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The author of the Rimiler himself was perplı xed in the extreme , and at that period too , waen he wis composing his great philological work . Hliving scttled upoa the plan to be pursued and ferventiy soiicitud Providence to aid the ...
The author of the Rimiler himself was perplı xed in the extreme , and at that period too , waen he wis composing his great philological work . Hliving scttled upoa the plan to be pursued and ferventiy soiicitud Providence to aid the ...
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... translated from the Journal des sçavans , for the month of November 1788 , has communicated a very well written biography of an ingenious mechanist , that , at an early period , young Ramsden conceived a strong desire of devoting ...
... translated from the Journal des sçavans , for the month of November 1788 , has communicated a very well written biography of an ingenious mechanist , that , at an early period , young Ramsden conceived a strong desire of devoting ...
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I believe that out of every hundred females , from sisteen to five and twenty years of age there are probably twice as many bcautiful , and twice as many handsome , as there were at the commencement of the period embraced in my inquiry ...
I believe that out of every hundred females , from sisteen to five and twenty years of age there are probably twice as many bcautiful , and twice as many handsome , as there were at the commencement of the period embraced in my inquiry ...
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At that period of comparative simplicity , it was not the fashion for the honest yeomanry of the country , to reserve one at least , of their hopeful sons , perhaps the dullest of them all , for a liverul profession , as it is called ...
At that period of comparative simplicity , it was not the fashion for the honest yeomanry of the country , to reserve one at least , of their hopeful sons , perhaps the dullest of them all , for a liverul profession , as it is called ...
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At that peaceful and happy period , party feuds and rivalships were in a great measure unknown , and places of distinction and public trust , not yet become the prescriptive inheritance of charlatans and demagogues , were bestowed ...
At that peaceful and happy period , party feuds and rivalships were in a great measure unknown , and places of distinction and public trust , not yet become the prescriptive inheritance of charlatans and demagogues , were bestowed ...
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| Title | The Port Folio, Volume 5 Volumes 40-42; Volumes 220-227 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 |
| Contributors | Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins, John Elihu Hall |
| Publisher | Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Apr 2019 |
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