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Page xxxviii
... fide , who feeing fomewhat come floating towards them a great way off at fea , take it at first to be fome mighty matter ; but upon its driving nearer and nearer to the fhore , find it at last to be only a heap of weeds and rubbish - is ...
... fide , who feeing fomewhat come floating towards them a great way off at fea , take it at first to be fome mighty matter ; but upon its driving nearer and nearer to the fhore , find it at last to be only a heap of weeds and rubbish - is ...
Page xlv
... fide of the Greeks , against the Perfians , in the ftraits of Thermopyla , which must have been above eighty years after his death . But these are fuch manifeft abfurdities , as confute themselves . Nei- ther is it probable , as some ...
... fide of the Greeks , against the Perfians , in the ftraits of Thermopyla , which must have been above eighty years after his death . But these are fuch manifeft abfurdities , as confute themselves . Nei- ther is it probable , as some ...
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... fide of a jarr where some sauce had been spill- ed — I am very glad , said she smiling , that you feem to have fo good an appetite ; I hope you will make as hearty a dinner at my table as I did the other day at yours . Reynard hung down ...
... fide of a jarr where some sauce had been spill- ed — I am very glad , said she smiling , that you feem to have fo good an appetite ; I hope you will make as hearty a dinner at my table as I did the other day at yours . Reynard hung down ...
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... forming fuch regu- lar cells , and afterwards of filling them with fo delicious a fluid . The Wafps refusing to agree to this propofal , fufficiently convinced the judge on on which fide the right lay , and he decreed 32 ANCIENT FABLES .
... forming fuch regu- lar cells , and afterwards of filling them with fo delicious a fluid . The Wafps refusing to agree to this propofal , fufficiently convinced the judge on on which fide the right lay , and he decreed 32 ANCIENT FABLES .
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In Three Books Robert Dodsley, Aesop. on which fide the right lay , and he decreed the honeycomb accordingly . A FABLE XXIX . The Old Man and Death . Feeble Old Man quite spent with carrying a burthen of flicks , which with much labour ...
In Three Books Robert Dodsley, Aesop. on which fide the right lay , and he decreed the honeycomb accordingly . A FABLE XXIX . The Old Man and Death . Feeble Old Man quite spent with carrying a burthen of flicks , which with much labour ...
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