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Page 224
... wish the good old times would come again , ' she said , ' when we were not quite so rich . I do not mean , that I want to be poor ; but there was a middle state ' — so she was pleased to ramble on , - ' in which I am sure we were a ...
... wish the good old times would come again , ' she said , ' when we were not quite so rich . I do not mean , that I want to be poor ; but there was a middle state ' — so she was pleased to ramble on , - ' in which I am sure we were a ...
Page 265
... wish it to be as a mere vision , like one of his own pageants , and that he should pass by unquestioned like a dream or sound- -That was Arion crown'd : So went he playing on the watʼry plain ! ' Captain B.1 muttered something about ...
... wish it to be as a mere vision , like one of his own pageants , and that he should pass by unquestioned like a dream or sound- -That was Arion crown'd : So went he playing on the watʼry plain ! ' Captain B.1 muttered something about ...
Page 302
... wish to be remembered after we had passed away from a world in which each man had moved about like a shadow . - If , then , in a Creature endowed with the faculties of foresight and reason , the social affections could not have unfolded ...
... wish to be remembered after we had passed away from a world in which each man had moved about like a shadow . - If , then , in a Creature endowed with the faculties of foresight and reason , the social affections could not have unfolded ...
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