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Page 30
... situation might well startle a stronger mental organization than Cowper's ; but while pity is due to his over acute sensibilities , it would be wronging the moral importance of our subject as an example to others , not to express our ...
... situation might well startle a stronger mental organization than Cowper's ; but while pity is due to his over acute sensibilities , it would be wronging the moral importance of our subject as an example to others , not to express our ...
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... situation . confinement in the winter , and indeed for the most pa autumn too , has hurt us both . A gravel walk thirt long affords but indifferent scope to the locomotive f yet it is all that we have had to move in for eight m the year ...
... situation . confinement in the winter , and indeed for the most pa autumn too , has hurt us both . A gravel walk thirt long affords but indifferent scope to the locomotive f yet it is all that we have had to move in for eight m the year ...
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... situation rer there with im to languisi to apprehen arks , Compe sed " the last the a spirit of are , at the genuine criti ned to rouse ork which he kindling up turning year poet ; and mentioned in in January , 1794 , we find him ...
... situation rer there with im to languisi to apprehen arks , Compe sed " the last the a spirit of are , at the genuine criti ned to rouse ork which he kindling up turning year poet ; and mentioned in in January , 1794 , we find him ...
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