The British Essayists: WorldJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 - English essays |
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... occasions , particularly those fami- lies , in which ( as the phrase is ) the grey mare is the better horse . Being thus accustomed to noise in the day time , I am frequently awaked out of my sleep ( though in the absence of my wife ) ...
... occasions , particularly those fami- lies , in which ( as the phrase is ) the grey mare is the better horse . Being thus accustomed to noise in the day time , I am frequently awaked out of my sleep ( though in the absence of my wife ) ...
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... occasions was frequently in danger of being broken . At the boarding - school , which I was sent to at the usual age , I met with a governess who was hasty and passionate : and as in her cooler hours she was frequently making ...
... occasions was frequently in danger of being broken . At the boarding - school , which I was sent to at the usual age , I met with a governess who was hasty and passionate : and as in her cooler hours she was frequently making ...
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... a letter from her arrived , it was short and constrained , and sometimes blotted , as if with tears , while it told us of nothing that should occasion any concern . It is 18 144 . THE WORLD . Advice to the ladies on their return the ...
... a letter from her arrived , it was short and constrained , and sometimes blotted , as if with tears , while it told us of nothing that should occasion any concern . It is 18 144 . THE WORLD . Advice to the ladies on their return the ...
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James Ferguson. of nothing that should occasion any concern . It is now upwards of two months since we have heard from her at all ; and while we were wondering at her silence , we received a letter from the eldest of the young ladies ...
James Ferguson. of nothing that should occasion any concern . It is now upwards of two months since we have heard from her at all ; and while we were wondering at her silence , we received a letter from the eldest of the young ladies ...
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... occasion in all the agony of a fond mother's distresses . But O ! I have fatal forebodings that my letter will arrive too late . What is this honour , and what this jus- tice , that prompts men to acts of violence and blood , and either ...
... occasion in all the agony of a fond mother's distresses . But O ! I have fatal forebodings that my letter will arrive too late . What is this honour , and what this jus- tice , that prompts men to acts of violence and blood , and either ...
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