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... thousand pardons of me for only treading by acci- dent upon my toe . They call this kind of lie a • compliment ; for when they are civil to a great man , they tell him untruths , for which thou wouldst order any of thy officers of ftate ...
... thousand pardons of me for only treading by acci- dent upon my toe . They call this kind of lie a • compliment ; for when they are civil to a great man , they tell him untruths , for which thou wouldst order any of thy officers of ftate ...
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... thousands more of this inconftant race , Wou'd tire e'en Fabius to relate each cafe . Not to detain you longer , pray attend The iffue of all this ; thou'd Jove defcend , And grant to ev'ry man his rath demand , To run his lengths with ...
... thousands more of this inconftant race , Wou'd tire e'en Fabius to relate each cafe . Not to detain you longer , pray attend The iffue of all this ; thou'd Jove defcend , And grant to ev'ry man his rath demand , To run his lengths with ...
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... thousand chimerical shapes , as her garments hovered in the wind . There was fomething wild and diftracted in her looks . Her name was Fancy . She led up every mortal to the appointed place , after having very officious- ly affifted him ...
... thousand chimerical shapes , as her garments hovered in the wind . There was fomething wild and diftracted in her looks . Her name was Fancy . She led up every mortal to the appointed place , after having very officious- ly affifted him ...
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... thousand drachmas for going out to the bat- tle unarmed . *** No. 565. FRIDAY , JULY 9 . ****** -Deum namque ire per omnes Terrafque , tractufque maris , cælumque profundum . VIRG . Georg . iv . ver . 221 . For God the whole created ...
... thousand drachmas for going out to the bat- tle unarmed . *** No. 565. FRIDAY , JULY 9 . ****** -Deum namque ire per omnes Terrafque , tractufque maris , cælumque profundum . VIRG . Georg . iv . ver . 221 . For God the whole created ...
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... thousands more of this ambitious race Wou'd tire e'en Fabius to relate each cafe . HORNECK . I am led into this train of thought by an adven- ture I lately met with . I was the other day at a tavern , where the master of the house ...
... thousands more of this ambitious race Wou'd tire e'en Fabius to relate each cafe . HORNECK . I am led into this train of thought by an adven- ture I lately met with . I was the other day at a tavern , where the master of the house ...
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