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My companion who possessed more than his share of the hatred , which his countrymen bore to the French , had just observed to me , “ a Frenchman , Sir ! is the only animal in the human shape , that by no possibility can lift itself up ...
My companion who possessed more than his share of the hatred , which his countrymen bore to the French , had just observed to me , “ a Frenchman , Sir ! is the only animal in the human shape , that by no possibility can lift itself up ...
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were eighteen in number , videlicet , five Englishmen , an English lady , a French gentleman and his servant , an Hanoverian and his servant , a Prussian , a Swede , two Danes , and a Mulatto boy , a German tailor and his wife ( the ...
were eighteen in number , videlicet , five Englishmen , an English lady , a French gentleman and his servant , an Hanoverian and his servant , a Prussian , a Swede , two Danes , and a Mulatto boy , a German tailor and his wife ( the ...
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... incomparably the best informed and most rational of the party . Indeed his manners and conversation discovered him to be both a man of the world and a gentleman . The Jew was in the hold : the French gentleman was lying on the deck ...
... incomparably the best informed and most rational of the party . Indeed his manners and conversation discovered him to be both a man of the world and a gentleman . The Jew was in the hold : the French gentleman was lying on the deck ...
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And how can I do this better than by pointing out its gallant attention to the ladies ? Our English affix , ess , is , I believe , confined either to words drived from the Latin , as actress , directress , & c . or from the French ...
And how can I do this better than by pointing out its gallant attention to the ladies ? Our English affix , ess , is , I believe , confined either to words drived from the Latin , as actress , directress , & c . or from the French ...
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My companion who , you recollect , speaks the French language with unusual propriety , had formed a kind of confidential acquaintance with the emigrant , who appeared to be a man of sense , and whose manners were those of a perfect ...
My companion who , you recollect , speaks the French language with unusual propriety , had formed a kind of confidential acquaintance with the emigrant , who appeared to be a man of sense , and whose manners were those of a perfect ...
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| Title | Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Publisher | Fenner, 1817 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 23 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 309 pages |
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