The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... expressing the i by the sound of that letter as in the first syllable of the words , direct and divide , as by e in the first syllable of detect and deride . But if , impatient of delay , he would urge haste , he will add emphasis to ...
... expressing the i by the sound of that letter as in the first syllable of the words , direct and divide , as by e in the first syllable of detect and deride . But if , impatient of delay , he would urge haste , he will add emphasis to ...
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... expressing his indignation at the behaviour of Caesar , he says , I'm tortur'd e'en to madness , when I think Of the proud victor we shall find the greatest stress fall naturally on that word , which seems opposed to some common or ...
... expressing his indignation at the behaviour of Caesar , he says , I'm tortur'd e'en to madness , when I think Of the proud victor we shall find the greatest stress fall naturally on that word , which seems opposed to some common or ...
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... expressions and terms they have invented to explain themselves , and so absorbed in these terms that they cannot raise their eyes to contemplate or consider the secrets of nature . Behold moral philosophers temporising with human vices ...
... expressions and terms they have invented to explain themselves , and so absorbed in these terms that they cannot raise their eyes to contemplate or consider the secrets of nature . Behold moral philosophers temporising with human vices ...
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... expression , which , at the same time , evinces such unaffected diffidence of his abilities , that we were at once charmed and conciliated . If it were not of a length inconsistent with our limits , we would cheerfully insert the whole ...
... expression , which , at the same time , evinces such unaffected diffidence of his abilities , that we were at once charmed and conciliated . If it were not of a length inconsistent with our limits , we would cheerfully insert the whole ...
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... expressing ourselves or com- posing in the original . It is enough if you can dictate a sentence to them by signs , and let them have signs , if you please , that may repre- sent phrases , but nothing more will you ever attain to ...
... expressing ourselves or com- posing in the original . It is enough if you can dictate a sentence to them by signs , and let them have signs , if you please , that may repre- sent phrases , but nothing more will you ever attain to ...
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