The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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· To the work is prefixed an introduction , written with uncommon propriety of thought , and felicity of expression , which , at the same time , evinces such unaffected diffidence of his abilities , that we were at once charmed and ...
· To the work is prefixed an introduction , written with uncommon propriety of thought , and felicity of expression , which , at the same time , evinces such unaffected diffidence of his abilities , that we were at once charmed and ...
Page 27
... thought he could gain any woman . " Ask me no reason why I love you ; for though Love use Reason for his physician , he admits him not for his counsellor : you are not young , no more am I go to then , there's sympathy ; you are merry ...
... thought he could gain any woman . " Ask me no reason why I love you ; for though Love use Reason for his physician , he admits him not for his counsellor : you are not young , no more am I go to then , there's sympathy ; you are merry ...
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... thought were ex- pressions of their belief of the being of God and of their piety , yet when they came to hear and speak , they declared , that they never had a thought that there was a God , until they could hear , and were by that ...
... thought were ex- pressions of their belief of the being of God and of their piety , yet when they came to hear and speak , they declared , that they never had a thought that there was a God , until they could hear , and were by that ...
Page 48
... thought , were produced , and grew like plants . He perceived that other boys were in possession of some faculty that he had not , and thought that it might be acquired at school , where they regularly assembled , but he found ( and it ...
... thought , were produced , and grew like plants . He perceived that other boys were in possession of some faculty that he had not , and thought that it might be acquired at school , where they regularly assembled , but he found ( and it ...
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... thoughts , while they are those of nature , carry that cast of originality , which is the stamp and testimony of ... thought , he fearlessly pursues that course which his own sense of propriety indicates . It is very evident to me ...
... thoughts , while they are those of nature , carry that cast of originality , which is the stamp and testimony of ... thought , he fearlessly pursues that course which his own sense of propriety indicates . It is very evident to me ...
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