The Quarterly Review, Volume 19J. Murray, 1818 |
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... Never had any one more cause to be thankful for all the accidents of his birth . For , omit- ting what the Grecian philosopher reckoned among his felicities , that he was born a man and not a woman , it was the good fortune of Evelyn to ...
... Never had any one more cause to be thankful for all the accidents of his birth . For , omit- ting what the Grecian philosopher reckoned among his felicities , that he was born a man and not a woman , it was the good fortune of Evelyn to ...
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... never call to mind the least passion or inadvertence ; in his habits of life ascetic and sparing , and one that was never known to have been ' surprized by excess . ' It is possible , though Evelyn himself intimates no such suspicion ...
... never call to mind the least passion or inadvertence ; in his habits of life ascetic and sparing , and one that was never known to have been ' surprized by excess . ' It is possible , though Evelyn himself intimates no such suspicion ...
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... never had the opportunity to discharge his duty to his scho- lars . ' The pupil however found a fellow collegian named James Thicknesse , who was disposed to study with him , from ' whose learned and friendly conversation he received ...
... never had the opportunity to discharge his duty to his scho- lars . ' The pupil however found a fellow collegian named James Thicknesse , who was disposed to study with him , from ' whose learned and friendly conversation he received ...
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... never stopt his nose at any stink , as our chronicles report of him ; otherwise , in my con- science , he had never been able to keep his court there . But that which most amazed me is , that in such a perpetuated constancy of stinks ...
... never stopt his nose at any stink , as our chronicles report of him ; otherwise , in my con- science , he had never been able to keep his court there . But that which most amazed me is , that in such a perpetuated constancy of stinks ...
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... never , he says , was any artificial scene more beautiful to the eye , nor any place for its size , so full of well - designed and stately palaces . But the sudden and devilish passion ' of a sailor here gave him a fearful sample of the ...
... never , he says , was any artificial scene more beautiful to the eye , nor any place for its size , so full of well - designed and stately palaces . But the sudden and devilish passion ' of a sailor here gave him a fearful sample of the ...
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