Miscellaneous Works, 4. köideD.A. Talboys, 1830 |
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... inhabitants do not change : since there is nothing makes men sharper , and sets their hands and wits more at work , than want . The Italian proverb says of the Genoese , that they have a sea without fish , land without trees , and men ...
... inhabitants do not change : since there is nothing makes men sharper , and sets their hands and wits more at work , than want . The Italian proverb says of the Genoese , that they have a sea without fish , land without trees , and men ...
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... inhabitants of Thessa- lonica . That emperor was , however , so far from being displeased with the behaviour of the saint , that at his death he committed to him the education of his children . Several have picked splinters of wood out ...
... inhabitants of Thessa- lonica . That emperor was , however , so far from being displeased with the behaviour of the saint , that at his death he committed to him the education of his children . Several have picked splinters of wood out ...
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... inhabitants . But as mirth is more apt to make proselytes than melan- choly , it is observed that the Italians have many of them for these late years given very far into the modes and freedoms of the French ; which prevail more or less ...
... inhabitants . But as mirth is more apt to make proselytes than melan- choly , it is observed that the Italians have many of them for these late years given very far into the modes and freedoms of the French ; which prevail more or less ...
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... inhabitants of this country , when I passed through it , were extremely apprehensive of seeing Lombardy the seat of war , which must have made miserable havoc among their plantations ; for it is not here as in the corn fields of ...
... inhabitants of this country , when I passed through it , were extremely apprehensive of seeing Lombardy the seat of war , which must have made miserable havoc among their plantations ; for it is not here as in the corn fields of ...
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... inhabitants ; for a gondola with two oars at Venice , is as magnificent as a coach and six horses with a large equipage in another country ; besides that , it makes all carriages ex- tremely cheap . The streets are generally paved with ...
... inhabitants ; for a gondola with two oars at Venice , is as magnificent as a coach and six horses with a large equipage in another country ; besides that , it makes all carriages ex- tremely cheap . The streets are generally paved with ...
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