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... spread at a gaming - table , may be received with perfect indifference , should it happen to drop in a mackarel - boat . We have all feen dunces triumph in fome companies , where men of real hu- mour were disregarded , by a general ...
... spread at a gaming - table , may be received with perfect indifference , should it happen to drop in a mackarel - boat . We have all feen dunces triumph in fome companies , where men of real hu- mour were disregarded , by a general ...
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... spread ; the cave wa and Alcander was apprehended , and acc bery and murder . The circumftances were strong , and the wretchednefs of hi confirmed fufpicion . Misfortune and fo long acquainted , that he at laft becan of life . He ...
... spread ; the cave wa and Alcander was apprehended , and acc bery and murder . The circumftances were strong , and the wretchednefs of hi confirmed fufpicion . Misfortune and fo long acquainted , that he at laft becan of life . He ...
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... spreads with peftilential rapidity , and infects almost every rank of people ; and , what is still more ftrange , the natives have no name for this peculiar malady , though well known to foreign phyficians by the appellation of Epidemic ...
... spreads with peftilential rapidity , and infects almost every rank of people ; and , what is still more ftrange , the natives have no name for this peculiar malady , though well known to foreign phyficians by the appellation of Epidemic ...
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... been frighted by the barking of a dog ; and this , alas ! too frequently happens . The story foon is improved , and spreads , that a mad dog had frighted . a lady a lady of diftinction . Thefe circumftances begin to grow ESSAYS . 85.
... been frighted by the barking of a dog ; and this , alas ! too frequently happens . The story foon is improved , and spreads , that a mad dog had frighted . a lady a lady of diftinction . Thefe circumftances begin to grow ESSAYS . 85.
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... spreads profusion round ; Ye lakes , whofe vessels catch the busy gale ; v'ry vale ; Ye bending fwains , that dress the flow's For me your tributary stores combine : Creation's tenant , all the world in mine . As fome lone mifer ...
... spreads profusion round ; Ye lakes , whofe vessels catch the busy gale ; v'ry vale ; Ye bending fwains , that dress the flow's For me your tributary stores combine : Creation's tenant , all the world in mine . As fome lone mifer ...
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Page 170 - Frenchmen : we had no arms ; but one Englishman is able to beat five French at any time : so we went down to the door, where both the sentries were posted, and rushing upon them, seized their arms in a moment, and knocked them down. From thence, nine of us ran together to the quay...
Page xi - Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.