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... confess that it is my humor , my fancy - in the forepart of the day , when the mind of your man of letters re- quires some relaxation— ( and none better than such as at first sight seems most abhorrent from his be- loved studies ) -to ...
... confess that it is my humor , my fancy - in the forepart of the day , when the mind of your man of letters re- quires some relaxation— ( and none better than such as at first sight seems most abhorrent from his be- loved studies ) -to ...
Page 58
... confess , that I was never happier , than in them . The Upper and Lower Grammar Schools were held in the same room ; and an imaginary line only divided their bounds . Their character was as different as that of the inhabitants on the ...
... confess , that I was never happier , than in them . The Upper and Lower Grammar Schools were held in the same room ; and an imaginary line only divided their bounds . Their character was as different as that of the inhabitants on the ...
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... confess , for me to suffer by than to refute , namely , that " the title to property in a book ( my Bonaventure , for instance ) , is in exact ratio to the claimant's powers of under- standing and appreciating the same . " Should he go ...
... confess , for me to suffer by than to refute , namely , that " the title to property in a book ( my Bonaventure , for instance ) , is in exact ratio to the claimant's powers of under- standing and appreciating the same . " Should he go ...
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... confess a truth ? —I feel these audits but too powerfully . I begin to count the probabilities of my duration , and to grudge at the expenditure of moments and shortest periods , like miser's farthings . In proportion as the years both ...
... confess a truth ? —I feel these audits but too powerfully . I begin to count the probabilities of my duration , and to grudge at the expenditure of moments and shortest periods , like miser's farthings . In proportion as the years both ...
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... confess to me , whether , walking in your gallery at Sandham , among those clear Vandykes , or among the Paul Potters in the ante - room , you ever felt your bosom glow with an elegant delight , at all comparable to that you have it in ...
... confess to me , whether , walking in your gallery at Sandham , among those clear Vandykes , or among the Paul Potters in the ante - room , you ever felt your bosom glow with an elegant delight , at all comparable to that you have it in ...
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