The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 15
... less dangerous to the world , for as men naturally seek immortality , and this is acquired by Fame , either good or bad , which is not eternised by statues of marble or bronze , but in the pages of history , it follows that as there is ...
... less dangerous to the world , for as men naturally seek immortality , and this is acquired by Fame , either good or bad , which is not eternised by statues of marble or bronze , but in the pages of history , it follows that as there is ...
Page 22
... less justly than elegantly asserted by an admirable instructor of the most correct and delicate taste in the liberal arts , and who rigorously observed his own maxims , that an implicit obedience to the rules of art , as established by ...
... less justly than elegantly asserted by an admirable instructor of the most correct and delicate taste in the liberal arts , and who rigorously observed his own maxims , that an implicit obedience to the rules of art , as established by ...
Page 25
... less slanderous world has attributed to the sex , or yet perhaps anxious to learn something of a passion which she was not calculated to feel , insisted upon seeing her fat favourite in ove . Here was an undertaking worthy of the genius ...
... less slanderous world has attributed to the sex , or yet perhaps anxious to learn something of a passion which she was not calculated to feel , insisted upon seeing her fat favourite in ove . Here was an undertaking worthy of the genius ...
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... less perhaps , than an hun- dred columns of an hundred gazettes . 66 ' But , even admitting that there is some use ... less use to me than blank paper . " A daily gazette contains , when collected , at a year's end , no less than twelve ...
... less perhaps , than an hun- dred columns of an hundred gazettes . 66 ' But , even admitting that there is some use ... less use to me than blank paper . " A daily gazette contains , when collected , at a year's end , no less than twelve ...
Page 47
... less so than you would ima- gine , and they have a method of aerial writing like the Chinese , who are accustomed , when the sense of a word they make use of is doubtful , to draw the root or character of it in the air with the finger ...
... less so than you would ima- gine , and they have a method of aerial writing like the Chinese , who are accustomed , when the sense of a word they make use of is doubtful , to draw the root or character of it in the air with the finger ...
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