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Tis a pretty picture ! said my uncle Toby — she had suffered persecution , Trim ,
and had learnt mercy-She was good , an ' please your honour , from nature as
well as from hardships ; and there are circumstances in the story of that poor ...
Tis a pretty picture ! said my uncle Toby — she had suffered persecution , Trim ,
and had learnt mercy-She was good , an ' please your honour , from nature as
well as from hardships ; and there are circumstances in the story of that poor ...
Page 339
-faid my uncle Toby , after he lighted his pipe , and smoaked about a dozen *
whiffs.Trim came in front of his master and made his bow ; -- my uncle Toby
smoaked on , and said no more . Corporal ! faid my uncle Toby - the corporal
made his ...
-faid my uncle Toby , after he lighted his pipe , and smoaked about a dozen *
whiffs.Trim came in front of his master and made his bow ; -- my uncle Toby
smoaked on , and said no more . Corporal ! faid my uncle Toby - the corporal
made his ...
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Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed
Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in
Reading and Speaking William Enfield. My uncle Toby filled his second pipe ;
and had ...
Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed
Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in
Reading and Speaking William Enfield. My uncle Toby filled his second pipe ;
and had ...
Page 341
-Poor youth ! said my uncle Toby , -- he has been bred up from an infant in the
army , and the name of a soldier , Trim , founded in his ears like the name of a
friend ; I wish I had him here . I never , in the longest march , said the corporal ,
had so ...
-Poor youth ! said my uncle Toby , -- he has been bred up from an infant in the
army , and the name of a soldier , Trim , founded in his ears like the name of a
friend ; I wish I had him here . I never , in the longest march , said the corporal ,
had so ...
Page 346
-Your honour knows , said the corporal , I had no orders ;-True quoth my uncle
Toby , —thou didst very right , Trim , as a soldier , -- but certainly very wrong as a
man . In the second place , for which , indeed , thou haft the fame excuse ...
-Your honour knows , said the corporal , I had no orders ;-True quoth my uncle
Toby , —thou didst very right , Trim , as a soldier , -- but certainly very wrong as a
man . In the second place , for which , indeed , thou haft the fame excuse ...
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| Title | The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
| Author | William Enfield |
| Editor | William Enfield |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1797 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2012 |
| Length | 436 pages |
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