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... morning or quittedst it in mid - day ( what didst thou in an office ? ) without some quirk that left a sting ! Thy gibes and thy jokes are now extinct , or survive but in two forgotten volumes , which I had the good fortune to rescue ...
... morning or quittedst it in mid - day ( what didst thou in an office ? ) without some quirk that left a sting ! Thy gibes and thy jokes are now extinct , or survive but in two forgotten volumes , which I had the good fortune to rescue ...
Page 14
... morning among the cart - rucks of figures and cyphers , frisks and curvets so at its ease over the flowery carpet- ground of a midnight dissertation . - It feels its promotion . * * So that you see , upon the whole , the literary ...
... morning among the cart - rucks of figures and cyphers , frisks and curvets so at its ease over the flowery carpet- ground of a midnight dissertation . - It feels its promotion . * * So that you see , upon the whole , the literary ...
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... as brightly then as now , and man got him to his work in the morning . Why is it that we can never hear mention of 1 Januses of one face . - SIR THOMAS BROWNE . B them without an accompanying feeling , as though a 16 OXFORD IN THE VACATION.
... as brightly then as now , and man got him to his work in the morning . Why is it that we can never hear mention of 1 Januses of one face . - SIR THOMAS BROWNE . B them without an accompanying feeling , as though a 16 OXFORD IN THE VACATION.
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... the most absent of He made a call the other morning at our friend 1 M.'s in Bedford - square ; and , finding nobody at home , [ 1 Basil Montagu , Q.C. ] men . was ushered into the hall , where , asking for 20 OXFORD IN THE VACATION.
... the most absent of He made a call the other morning at our friend 1 M.'s in Bedford - square ; and , finding nobody at home , [ 1 Basil Montagu , Q.C. ] men . was ushered into the hall , where , asking for 20 OXFORD IN THE VACATION.
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... morning , while we were battening upon our. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL FIVE AND THIRTY YEARS AGO dace in the stream . " " Used to carry. 23 Headpiece-Christ's Hospital five and thirty years ago CHRIST'S HOSPITAL FIVE AND THIRTY YEARS AGO.
... morning , while we were battening upon our. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL FIVE AND THIRTY YEARS AGO dace in the stream . " " Used to carry. 23 Headpiece-Christ's Hospital five and thirty years ago CHRIST'S HOSPITAL FIVE AND THIRTY YEARS AGO.
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