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... pass more slightly over the rest . Now , after we nave learned the proper seats of these accents , it is an important rule , to give every › word just the same accent in reading , as in common discourse . Many per sons err in this ...
... pass more slightly over the rest . Now , after we nave learned the proper seats of these accents , it is an important rule , to give every › word just the same accent in reading , as in common discourse . Many per sons err in this ...
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... pass their last hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the ex- penses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external ...
... pass their last hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the ex- penses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external ...
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... passing the love of women . " Sir Philip Sidney , at the battle near Zuphen , was wounded by a musket ball , which broke the bone of his thigh . He was carried about a mile and a half , to the camp ; and being faint with the loss of ...
... passing the love of women . " Sir Philip Sidney , at the battle near Zuphen , was wounded by a musket ball , which broke the bone of his thigh . He was carried about a mile and a half , to the camp ; and being faint with the loss of ...
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... passing at that moment throughout the world ; multitudes struggling for a poor sub- sistence , to support the wife and children whom they love , and who look up to them with eager eyes for that bread which they can hardly procure ...
... passing at that moment throughout the world ; multitudes struggling for a poor sub- sistence , to support the wife and children whom they love , and who look up to them with eager eyes for that bread which they can hardly procure ...
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... pass . Hazael ascended the throne , and ambition took posses- sion of his heart . " He smote the children of Israel in all their coasts . He oppressed them during all the days of king Jehoahaz ; " and , from what is left on record of ...
... pass . Hazael ascended the throne , and ambition took posses- sion of his heart . " He smote the children of Israel in all their coasts . He oppressed them during all the days of king Jehoahaz ; " and , from what is left on record of ...
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