Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... afford you no light ; that for the bright and balmy breathings of Heaven , you are presented with a thick yellow atmosphere , which irritates your eyes , without assisting them to see . Well , I admit that we must betake ourselves , in ...
... afford you no light ; that for the bright and balmy breathings of Heaven , you are presented with a thick yellow atmosphere , which irritates your eyes , without assisting them to see . Well , I admit that we must betake ourselves , in ...
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... afford a beautiful confirmation of its accuracy . THE ENGLISHMAN IN FRANCE . A FRENCHMAN seeing as he walk'd A friend of his across the street , Cried " Hem ! " exactly as there stalk'd An Englishman along the road , One of those Johnny ...
... afford a beautiful confirmation of its accuracy . THE ENGLISHMAN IN FRANCE . A FRENCHMAN seeing as he walk'd A friend of his across the street , Cried " Hem ! " exactly as there stalk'd An Englishman along the road , One of those Johnny ...
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... afford- ing at the same time a new and more striking illustra- tion of that system of reproduction from old materials to which I have already alluded . Residing upon the eastern coast , and farming a considerable extent of country , I ...
... afford- ing at the same time a new and more striking illustra- tion of that system of reproduction from old materials to which I have already alluded . Residing upon the eastern coast , and farming a considerable extent of country , I ...
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... afford to narrow their influence by circumscribing the use of this antidote against drunkenness ; and the champion of the brewers should recollect the dictum of Raynal - that tea has contributed more to sobriety than the severest laws ...
... afford to narrow their influence by circumscribing the use of this antidote against drunkenness ; and the champion of the brewers should recollect the dictum of Raynal - that tea has contributed more to sobriety than the severest laws ...
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... afford a good handle for ridicule , there are cases in which a certain magni- ficence and superabundance of that feature , if not ab- stractedly becoming , has , at least , something appro- priate in its redundancy , according with the ...
... afford a good handle for ridicule , there are cases in which a certain magni- ficence and superabundance of that feature , if not ab- stractedly becoming , has , at least , something appro- priate in its redundancy , according with the ...
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