The Life of John Buncle: Esq; Containing Various Observations and Reflections, Made in Several Parts of the World, and Many Extraordinary RelationsJ. Johnson and B. Davenport, 1766 - Anecdotes |
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... saw a poor man pafs over the flory . plain , who had come down the mountain we defcended , and was going to cross the Teefe in a small skiff of his own , in order to go to his cottage on the other fide in Bish- oprick : that he lived by ...
... saw a poor man pafs over the flory . plain , who had come down the mountain we defcended , and was going to cross the Teefe in a small skiff of his own , in order to go to his cottage on the other fide in Bish- oprick : that he lived by ...
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... saw , that barbarity , policy , and fophistry , were the main props of popery ; and that , in doctrine and practice , it was one of the grea- teft vifible enemies that Chrift has in the world . He found that even Bellarmine's notes of ...
... saw , that barbarity , policy , and fophistry , were the main props of popery ; and that , in doctrine and practice , it was one of the grea- teft vifible enemies that Chrift has in the world . He found that even Bellarmine's notes of ...
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... saw her again , fhe was clean and whole , and feemed to have recovered a little , though very little , of what the once was : but a more miserable fpectacle my eyes have not often seen . She told me , that foon after I went to England ...
... saw her again , fhe was clean and whole , and feemed to have recovered a little , though very little , of what the once was : but a more miserable fpectacle my eyes have not often seen . She told me , that foon after I went to England ...
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... saw her , she was grim as the skeleton , horrid , loath- fome , and finking faft into the grave by the laws of corruption . What a change was there ! She lived but three months from the time I put her into a lodging , and died as happy ...
... saw her , she was grim as the skeleton , horrid , loath- fome , and finking faft into the grave by the laws of corruption . What a change was there ! She lived but three months from the time I put her into a lodging , and died as happy ...
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... saw . Every thing was fo good , and the wild charms of the place fo pleafing , that they could not but express the tranfports they were in at their prefent fituation . The whole they faid , was charming as inchantment , and in language ...
... saw . Every thing was fo good , and the wild charms of the place fo pleafing , that they could not but express the tranfports they were in at their prefent fituation . The whole they faid , was charming as inchantment , and in language ...
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