A Thousand and One Gems of English ProseG. Routledge, 1872 - 534 pages |
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... tell them of them , the best way to represent to life the mani- to the great damage both of their fame fold use of friendship , is to cast and see and fortune : for , as St. James saith , they how many things there are which a man are ...
... tell them of them , the best way to represent to life the mani- to the great damage both of their fame fold use of friendship , is to cast and see and fortune : for , as St. James saith , they how many things there are which a man are ...
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... their main bodies , alterable in their parts ; whereof , beside comets and new stars , perspectives begin to tell tales , and the spots that wander about the sun , with Phaeton's plating the extremities OF ENGLISH PROSE . 17.
... their main bodies , alterable in their parts ; whereof , beside comets and new stars , perspectives begin to tell tales , and the spots that wander about the sun , with Phaeton's plating the extremities OF ENGLISH PROSE . 17.
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... tell but he that loves his children , how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges ; their childishness , their stammering , their little angers , their innocence , their ...
... tell but he that loves his children , how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges ; their childishness , their stammering , their little angers , their innocence , their ...
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... tell all the world that , when we die , our ashes shall be equal to kings ' , and our accounts easier , and our pains for our crowns shall be less . - Ibid . [ DR . ROBERT SOUTH . 1633-1716 . ] SANCTIMONIOUSNESS . BODILY abstinence ...
... tell all the world that , when we die , our ashes shall be equal to kings ' , and our accounts easier , and our pains for our crowns shall be less . - Ibid . [ DR . ROBERT SOUTH . 1633-1716 . ] SANCTIMONIOUSNESS . BODILY abstinence ...
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... tell them that the envy of Providence has sealed up everything that is suitable under the character of unlawful ? For certainly first to frame appetites fit to receive plea- sure , and then to interdict them with a Touch not , taste not ...
... tell them that the envy of Providence has sealed up everything that is suitable under the character of unlawful ? For certainly first to frame appetites fit to receive plea- sure , and then to interdict them with a Touch not , taste not ...
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