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... mind . Old - fashioned , for a reason mentioned before . Humorists , for they were of all descriptions ; and , not having been brought to- gether in early life ( which has a tendency to assimi- late the members of corporate bodies to ...
... mind . Old - fashioned , for a reason mentioned before . Humorists , for they were of all descriptions ; and , not having been brought to- gether in early life ( which has a tendency to assimi- late the members of corporate bodies to ...
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... mind was in its original state of white paper . A sucking - babe might have posed him . What was it then ? Was he rich ? Alas , no ! Thomas Tame was very poor . Both he and his wife looked out- wardly gentlefolks , when I fear all was ...
... mind was in its original state of white paper . A sucking - babe might have posed him . What was it then ? Was he rich ? Alas , no ! Thomas Tame was very poor . Both he and his wife looked out- wardly gentlefolks , when I fear all was ...
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... mind as one of the self - same college - — a votary of the desk a notched and cropt scrivener one that sucks his sustenance , as certain sick people are said to do , through a quill . Well , I do agnize something of the sort . I confess ...
... mind as one of the self - same college - — a votary of the desk a notched and cropt scrivener one that sucks his sustenance , as certain sick people are said to do , through a quill . Well , I do agnize something of the sort . I confess ...
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... mind with idle portraiture . L. has recorded the repugnance of the school to gags , or the fat of fresh beef boiled ; and sets it down . to some superstition . But these unctuous morsels are never grateful to young palates ( children ...
... mind with idle portraiture . L. has recorded the repugnance of the school to gags , or the fat of fresh beef boiled ; and sets it down . to some superstition . But these unctuous morsels are never grateful to young palates ( children ...
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... mind to whip you , " then , with as sudden a retracting impulse , fling back into his lair- and , after a cooling lapse of some minutes ( during which all but the culprit had totally forgotten the context ) drive headlong out again ...
... mind to whip you , " then , with as sudden a retracting impulse , fling back into his lair- and , after a cooling lapse of some minutes ( during which all but the culprit had totally forgotten the context ) drive headlong out again ...
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