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Page 9
... seemed ruled with a ruler . His pen was not less erring than his heart . He made the best executor in the world : he was plagued with incessant executorships accordingly , which excited his spleen and soothed his vanity in equal ratios ...
... seemed ruled with a ruler . His pen was not less erring than his heart . He made the best executor in the world : he was plagued with incessant executorships accordingly , which excited his spleen and soothed his vanity in equal ratios ...
Page 11
... seemed pleased whenever it was , with all gentleness , insinuated . But , besides his family pretensions , Plumer was an engaging fellow , and sang gloriously . It Not so sweetly sang Plumer as thou sangest , mild , child - like ...
... seemed pleased whenever it was , with all gentleness , insinuated . But , besides his family pretensions , Plumer was an engaging fellow , and sang gloriously . It Not so sweetly sang Plumer as thou sangest , mild , child - like ...
Page 27
... seemed to them to recur too often , though I thought them few enough ; and , one after another , they all failed me , and I felt myself alone among six hundred playmates . O the cruelty of separating a poor lad from his early homestead ...
... seemed to them to recur too often , though I thought them few enough ; and , one after another , they all failed me , and I felt myself alone among six hundred playmates . O the cruelty of separating a poor lad from his early homestead ...
Page 48
... seemed picased to be " stocked with so fair a herd . " With such sources , it was a wonder how he contrived to keep his treasury always empty . He did it by force of an aphorism , which he had often in his mouth , that " money kept ...
... seemed picased to be " stocked with so fair a herd . " With such sources , it was a wonder how he contrived to keep his treasury always empty . He did it by force of an aphorism , which he had often in his mouth , that " money kept ...
Page 57
... seemed to raise hilarity in all around me , never failed to bring a train of pensive imagery into my fancy . Yet I then scarce conceived what it meant , or thought of it as a reckoning that concerned me . Not childhood alone , but the ...
... seemed to raise hilarity in all around me , never failed to bring a train of pensive imagery into my fancy . Yet I then scarce conceived what it meant , or thought of it as a reckoning that concerned me . Not childhood alone , but the ...
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