The Miseries of Human Life, Or, The Groans of Samuel Sensitive, and Timothy Testy: With a Few Supplementary Sighs from Mrs. Testy : in Twelve DialoguesWilliam Miller, 1807 - 220 pages |
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... as to be absolutely all in all to one another , how come ye , pray , to be so wonderfully interested in the fate of your . flesh , as you have more than half confessed , among you , that you are ? -Why , if 4 MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE .
... as to be absolutely all in all to one another , how come ye , pray , to be so wonderfully interested in the fate of your . flesh , as you have more than half confessed , among you , that you are ? -Why , if 4 MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE .
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... half afraid there's no fun in a fever ! Sen. Surely , Sir , --- is it possible you should not have observed that sickness is yet more lavish of accommodations , which it even im- proves , with its own improving strength : at its maturer ...
... half afraid there's no fun in a fever ! Sen. Surely , Sir , --- is it possible you should not have observed that sickness is yet more lavish of accommodations , which it even im- proves , with its own improving strength : at its maturer ...
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... half mad ! though , for all I can see , the whole offence is that he is a little wild , or so , in his way of reading ; and , by running from one book to another , and dashing from this part of the volume to that , has stuffed his head ...
... half mad ! though , for all I can see , the whole offence is that he is a little wild , or so , in his way of reading ; and , by running from one book to another , and dashing from this part of the volume to that , has stuffed his head ...
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... half murdered beggar : - Ned Tes . " Quem circum , limus niger , et deformis arundo , tardâque palus inamabilis undâ Alligat , et novies Sticks interfusa coercent . " VIRG . 8. ( T. ) Walking obliquely up a steep hill , when the ground ...
... half murdered beggar : - Ned Tes . " Quem circum , limus niger , et deformis arundo , tardâque palus inamabilis undâ Alligat , et novies Sticks interfusa coercent . " VIRG . 8. ( T. ) Walking obliquely up a steep hill , when the ground ...
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... half - curtesies to each other , and then moving off , ( as so many pairs of rusty tongs would move , if alive , ) one to her butcher's , to haggle for a bit of tripe ; another to take an hour's walk of a quarter of a mile , for an ...
... half - curtesies to each other , and then moving off , ( as so many pairs of rusty tongs would move , if alive , ) one to her butcher's , to haggle for a bit of tripe ; another to take an hour's walk of a quarter of a mile , for an ...
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