The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Different persons would however require different points to be developed . The disciples of Montesquicu would ask to be acquainted with the region of his birth . Whether he first drew his breath under the tropics or at the poles ...
Different persons would however require different points to be developed . The disciples of Montesquicu would ask to be acquainted with the region of his birth . Whether he first drew his breath under the tropics or at the poles ...
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Whenever he happened to speak in company of metaphysical or mathematical subjects , he took not the slightest notice of surrounding persons ; and his discourses were real dissertations in which not the least chasm could be discovered ...
Whenever he happened to speak in company of metaphysical or mathematical subjects , he took not the slightest notice of surrounding persons ; and his discourses were real dissertations in which not the least chasm could be discovered ...
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... and of the two persons who first risked the innovation , one was persuaded to renounce the unbecoming indulgence , and the other only retained it in consideration of delicate health , and on condition of lendin ; it to others in th ...
... and of the two persons who first risked the innovation , one was persuaded to renounce the unbecoming indulgence , and the other only retained it in consideration of delicate health , and on condition of lendin ; it to others in th ...
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Persons of note are saluted by every body they meet ; and the popular name of captain is often bestowed on respectable people , who never followed the sea , and perpetuated , as a credit : bie title , like that of squire on the ...
Persons of note are saluted by every body they meet ; and the popular name of captain is often bestowed on respectable people , who never followed the sea , and perpetuated , as a credit : bie title , like that of squire on the ...
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There are in every year at least fifty or sixty days in which the atmosphere is so humid , that some extra covering is necessary , more particularly for valetudinarians -- and indeed for those persons in high health , who do not wish to ...
There are in every year at least fifty or sixty days in which the atmosphere is so humid , that some extra covering is necessary , more particularly for valetudinarians -- and indeed for those persons in high health , who do not wish to ...
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