The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... perhaps , the antithesis is not quite so obvious : but , if an emphasis can be laid on any word , we may be assured that word is in antithesis with some meaning agreeable to the general sense of the passage . To illustrate this , if we ...
... perhaps , the antithesis is not quite so obvious : but , if an emphasis can be laid on any word , we may be assured that word is in antithesis with some meaning agreeable to the general sense of the passage . To illustrate this , if we ...
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... perhaps , brighter luminaries , but not a greater constellation . Collectively , we are entitled to boast of as much elo- quence , as has been exhibited in any age or country . " These observations contain sound criticism , and are ...
... perhaps , brighter luminaries , but not a greater constellation . Collectively , we are entitled to boast of as much elo- quence , as has been exhibited in any age or country . " These observations contain sound criticism , and are ...
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... perhaps by a capriciousness of disposition , which slanderous history has ascribed to her , or perhaps prompted by a curi- osity which a no less slanderous world has attributed to the sex , or yet perhaps anxious to learn something ...
... perhaps by a capriciousness of disposition , which slanderous history has ascribed to her , or perhaps prompted by a curi- osity which a no less slanderous world has attributed to the sex , or yet perhaps anxious to learn something ...
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... perhaps too virtuous , to yield to the feeble inducements presented by Sir John Falstaff ; but the one to ridicule the idle fears of a jealous husband , and the other to afford herself amusement , determine to encourage the addresses of ...
... perhaps too virtuous , to yield to the feeble inducements presented by Sir John Falstaff ; but the one to ridicule the idle fears of a jealous husband , and the other to afford herself amusement , determine to encourage the addresses of ...
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... perhaps , than an hun- dred columns of an hundred gazettes . 66 ' But , even admitting that there is some use in perusing these desul- tory and impertinent details of news , what have I , a plain farmer , per- haps , or a man of some ...
... perhaps , than an hun- dred columns of an hundred gazettes . 66 ' But , even admitting that there is some use in perusing these desul- tory and impertinent details of news , what have I , a plain farmer , per- haps , or a man of some ...
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