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... half - yearly dividends ( supposing thou art a lean annuitant like myself ) -to the Flower Pot , to secure a place for Dalston , or Shacklewell , or some other thy suburban retreat northerly , -didst thou never observe a melancholy ...
... half - yearly dividends ( supposing thou art a lean annuitant like myself ) -to the Flower Pot , to secure a place for Dalston , or Shacklewell , or some other thy suburban retreat northerly , -didst thou never observe a melancholy ...
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... half - forgotten humours of some old clerks defunct , in an old house of business , long since gone to decay , doubtless you have already set me down in your mind as one of the self - same college — a votary of the desk - a notched and ...
... half - forgotten humours of some old clerks defunct , in an old house of business , long since gone to decay , doubtless you have already set me down in your mind as one of the self - same college — a votary of the desk - a notched and ...
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... half Januses are we , that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert ! The mighty future is as nothing , being every thing ! the past is every thing , being nothing ! What were thy dark ages ? Surely the ...
... half Januses are we , that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert ! The mighty future is as nothing , being every thing ! the past is every thing , being nothing ! What were thy dark ages ? Surely the ...
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... half - pickled Sunday's , or quite fresh boiled beef on Thursdays ( strong as caro equina ) , with detestable marigolds floating in the pail to poison the broth - our scanty mutton crags on Fridays - and rather more savoury , but ...
... half - pickled Sunday's , or quite fresh boiled beef on Thursdays ( strong as caro equina ) , with detestable marigolds floating in the pail to poison the broth - our scanty mutton crags on Fridays - and rather more savoury , but ...
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... half - rejoicing , half - reluctant , that the hours of our uneasy liberty had expired ! It was worse in the days of winter , to go prowling about the streets objectless - shivering at cold windows of print - shops , to extract a little ...
... half - rejoicing , half - reluctant , that the hours of our uneasy liberty had expired ! It was worse in the days of winter , to go prowling about the streets objectless - shivering at cold windows of print - shops , to extract a little ...
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