The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 22
... amusement . They supply much information of a curious and interesting nature , not easily elsewhere to be obtained , and are occasionally interspersed with critical strictures , and politi- cal reflections , singularly acute , and ...
... amusement . They supply much information of a curious and interesting nature , not easily elsewhere to be obtained , and are occasionally interspersed with critical strictures , and politi- cal reflections , singularly acute , and ...
Page 27
... amusement , determine to encourage the addresses of the knight , and the various schemes practised upon him preserve the vivacity of the play with an interest and animation scarcely equalled in the circle of the drama . The concealment ...
... amusement , determine to encourage the addresses of the knight , and the various schemes practised upon him preserve the vivacity of the play with an interest and animation scarcely equalled in the circle of the drama . The concealment ...
Page 41
... amusement . A line drawn from the Rue St. Jaques at right angles through the Sorbonne , would soon strike the Rue de la Harpe , where some remains of the Roman domination in Paris may still be traced : they consist of what was probably ...
... amusement . A line drawn from the Rue St. Jaques at right angles through the Sorbonne , would soon strike the Rue de la Harpe , where some remains of the Roman domination in Paris may still be traced : they consist of what was probably ...
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... amusement : their mode of conversing by signs and gestures is limited indeed , but less so than you would ima- gine , and they have a method of aerial writing like the Chinese , who are accustomed , when the sense of a word they make ...
... amusement : their mode of conversing by signs and gestures is limited indeed , but less so than you would ima- gine , and they have a method of aerial writing like the Chinese , who are accustomed , when the sense of a word they make ...
Page 107
... amusement ; but I must submit to be thought dull by those , who seek amusement only . FRIEND " will he distinguished from its celebrated predecessors , the Specta- tor , & c . as to its plan , chiefly by the greater length of the ...
... amusement ; but I must submit to be thought dull by those , who seek amusement only . FRIEND " will he distinguished from its celebrated predecessors , the Specta- tor , & c . as to its plan , chiefly by the greater length of the ...
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