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Page 12
... carried into it their sepa- rate habits and oddities , unqualified , if I may so speak , as into a common stock . Hence they formed a sort of Noah's ark . Odd fishes . A lay - monastery . Domestic retainers in a great house , kept more ...
... carried into it their sepa- rate habits and oddities , unqualified , if I may so speak , as into a common stock . Hence they formed a sort of Noah's ark . Odd fishes . A lay - monastery . Domestic retainers in a great house , kept more ...
Page 32
... carry away openly , in open platters , for their own tables , one out of two of every hot joint , which the care ... carried away before our faces by harpies ; and ourselves reduced ( with the Trojan in the hall of Dido ) 66 To feed our ...
... carry away openly , in open platters , for their own tables , one out of two of every hot joint , which the care ... carried away before our faces by harpies ; and ourselves reduced ( with the Trojan in the hall of Dido ) 66 To feed our ...
Page 33
... carry out of the bounds a large blue check handkerchief , full of something . This then must be the accursed thing . Conjecture next was at work to imagine how he could dispose of it . Some said he sold it to the beggars . This belief ...
... carry out of the bounds a large blue check handkerchief , full of something . This then must be the accursed thing . Conjecture next was at work to imagine how he could dispose of it . Some said he sold it to the beggars . This belief ...
Page 34
... carrying a baker's basket . I think I heard he did not do quite so well by himself , as he had done by the old folks . I was a hypochondriac lad ; and the sight of a boy in fetters , upon the day of my first putting on the blue clothes ...
... carrying a baker's basket . I think I heard he did not do quite so well by himself , as he had done by the old folks . I was a hypochondriac lad ; and the sight of a boy in fetters , upon the day of my first putting on the blue clothes ...
Page 37
... carried an accidence , or a grammar , for form ; but , for any trouble it gave us , we might take two years in getting through the verbs deponent , and another two in forgetting all that we had learned about them . There was now and ...
... carried an accidence , or a grammar , for form ; but , for any trouble it gave us , we might take two years in getting through the verbs deponent , and another two in forgetting all that we had learned about them . There was now and ...
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