The Life of John Buncle, Esq, Volume 3S. Prowett, 1825 |
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... fortunes , and , MAKINS excepted , were as handsome fine fellows as could be picked out in all the world . MAKINS was a very low , thin man , not four feet high , and had but one eye , with * A phrase used by Swift . which he squinted ...
... fortunes , and , MAKINS excepted , were as handsome fine fellows as could be picked out in all the world . MAKINS was a very low , thin man , not four feet high , and had but one eye , with * A phrase used by Swift . which he squinted ...
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... fortune to be tried before a judge , the late Sir John St. Leger , who never let any man suffer for killing ano- ther in this manner . He debauched all the women he could , and many whom he could not corrupt , he ravished . I went with ...
... fortune to be tried before a judge , the late Sir John St. Leger , who never let any man suffer for killing ano- ther in this manner . He debauched all the women he could , and many whom he could not corrupt , he ravished . I went with ...
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... fortune do when they have gratified desire . All the distressed were ever sharers in GOL LOGHER's fine estate , and especially the girls he had taken to his breast . He provided happily for them all , and left nineteen daughters he had ...
... fortune do when they have gratified desire . All the distressed were ever sharers in GOL LOGHER's fine estate , and especially the girls he had taken to his breast . He provided happily for them all , and left nineteen daughters he had ...
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... fortune , if such a man should ever take this book in his hand . Travelling once in the summer - time , in the county of Kildare in Ireland , I came into a land of flowers and blossoms , hills , woods , and shades ; where I saw upon an ...
... fortune , if such a man should ever take this book in his hand . Travelling once in the summer - time , in the county of Kildare in Ireland , I came into a land of flowers and blossoms , hills , woods , and shades ; where I saw upon an ...
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... fortune led me to his house . His wife was then dead , and he had but one child left , his daughter ELIZABETH . The beauties of this young lady were very extraor- dinary . She had the finest eyes in the world , she looked , she smiled ...
... fortune led me to his house . His wife was then dead , and he had but one child left , his daughter ELIZABETH . The beauties of this young lady were very extraor- dinary . She had the finest eyes in the world , she looked , she smiled ...
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