The Last Essays of EliaG. Routledge & sons, 1880 - 119 pages |
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Page 43
... hours ' a - day attendance at the counting - house . But time partially reconciles us to anything . I gradually ... hour ; and livelily expressing the hollowness of a day's plea- suring . The very strollers in the fields on that day ...
... hours ' a - day attendance at the counting - house . But time partially reconciles us to anything . I gradually ... hour ; and livelily expressing the hollowness of a day's plea- suring . The very strollers in the fields on that day ...
Page 64
... hour in the morning , we presume it was meant . Now , as our main occu- pation took us up from eight till five every ... hour , or an hour and a - half's dura- tion , in which a man , whose occa- sions call him up so prepos- terously ...
... hour in the morning , we presume it was meant . Now , as our main occu- pation took us up from eight till five every ... hour , or an hour and a - half's dura- tion , in which a man , whose occa- sions call him up so prepos- terously ...
Page 78
... hour , which at length approached , when after a protracted breakfast of three hours — if stores of cold fowls , None Are idly bent on him that enters next . So idly did we bend our eyes upon one another , when the chief performers in ...
... hour , which at length approached , when after a protracted breakfast of three hours — if stores of cold fowls , None Are idly bent on him that enters next . So idly did we bend our eyes upon one another , when the chief performers in ...
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