The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... seems to have prescribed for him . Some are better fitted for action than others , and most for some parti- cular actions rather than others , for what fits well upon one would appear very awkward in another . Every one therefore should ...
... seems to have prescribed for him . Some are better fitted for action than others , and most for some parti- cular actions rather than others , for what fits well upon one would appear very awkward in another . Every one therefore should ...
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... seems to be the most generally usefu ! The respective merits of Homer , of Alfred and of Bacon must in some measure be judged of by comparing their attainments with those of their contemporaries , while the political histories of ...
... seems to be the most generally usefu ! The respective merits of Homer , of Alfred and of Bacon must in some measure be judged of by comparing their attainments with those of their contemporaries , while the political histories of ...
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... seem as an excuse for this credulity . In the beginning of the year 1748 , France being yet at war with Great Britain , a small merchant vessel bound from Rochelle to the Cul - de - sac Marin , a port of Martinique , was so closely ...
... seem as an excuse for this credulity . In the beginning of the year 1748 , France being yet at war with Great Britain , a small merchant vessel bound from Rochelle to the Cul - de - sac Marin , a port of Martinique , was so closely ...
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... seems to stand on middle ground , and to partake of a middle nature , be- tween human and divine . No wonder , then , that a rude barba- rian soldiery mistook the Roman senate for an assembly of gods ! And no wonder that to individuals ...
... seems to stand on middle ground , and to partake of a middle nature , be- tween human and divine . No wonder , then , that a rude barba- rian soldiery mistook the Roman senate for an assembly of gods ! And no wonder that to individuals ...
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... seem to sigh in the west wind- already they mingle with every echo from the mountains . " Let us not hesitate then to ... seems to be fiction is found to fall short of experience . " I rose to speak under impressions that I would have ...
... seem to sigh in the west wind- already they mingle with every echo from the mountains . " Let us not hesitate then to ... seems to be fiction is found to fall short of experience . " I rose to speak under impressions that I would have ...
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