Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 90Pub. for J. Hinton., 1792 |
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... cause , and have scarcely , in any one instance , been the mere confe- quences of their talents , or the infen- fibility or indifference of mankind to their worth and merits . But with refpect to Shenftone and Hammond , the charge is of ...
... cause , and have scarcely , in any one instance , been the mere confe- quences of their talents , or the infen- fibility or indifference of mankind to their worth and merits . But with refpect to Shenftone and Hammond , the charge is of ...
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... caused him to appear more averfe to fociety than I think he really was ; and it has been mentioned as an unfortunate cir- cumftance , that his fhynefs and re- ferve frequently kept him out of the way of perfons from whom he might have ...
... caused him to appear more averfe to fociety than I think he really was ; and it has been mentioned as an unfortunate cir- cumftance , that his fhynefs and re- ferve frequently kept him out of the way of perfons from whom he might have ...
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... caused his fervant to follow them , and get in- telligence who they were . It was not without fome difappointment that he learped , that the old gentleman was an eminent merchant , and the young lady , his wife . Mr. Howard's ...
... caused his fervant to follow them , and get in- telligence who they were . It was not without fome difappointment that he learped , that the old gentleman was an eminent merchant , and the young lady , his wife . Mr. Howard's ...
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... cause thereof , prevented the farmer's com- plaints , by asking him , whether he had made the fame gain this year of his acres as formerly ? To which the countryman replied , that the violence of the winds last autumn , and the fud- den ...
... cause thereof , prevented the farmer's com- plaints , by asking him , whether he had made the fame gain this year of his acres as formerly ? To which the countryman replied , that the violence of the winds last autumn , and the fud- den ...
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... cause apparently feated nearer to its center than its surface , muft certainly have been thrown into ftrange heaps of ruins for the fragments of the frata , thus blown up , could not pof- fibly fall together again into their pri- mitive ...
... cause apparently feated nearer to its center than its surface , muft certainly have been thrown into ftrange heaps of ruins for the fragments of the frata , thus blown up , could not pof- fibly fall together again into their pri- mitive ...
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