The Scots Magazine, Volume 52Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1790 - English literature |
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... lived in the house of the Marquis de Mirepoix , which is near the Invalids , and at a great distance from ne hofpitals and medical colleges , Mr Moore took lodgings nearer them , and vifited the Ambassador's family only when his ...
... lived in the house of the Marquis de Mirepoix , which is near the Invalids , and at a great distance from ne hofpitals and medical colleges , Mr Moore took lodgings nearer them , and vifited the Ambassador's family only when his ...
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... lived peaceably , till Madame de Pelleport learnt that her husband was put into the Battile for a pamphlet againtt the Count de Vergennes and the Sieur le Noir , entitled " Le Diable dans un Bé- nitier , " " The Devil in a Holy - Water ...
... lived peaceably , till Madame de Pelleport learnt that her husband was put into the Battile for a pamphlet againtt the Count de Vergennes and the Sieur le Noir , entitled " Le Diable dans un Bé- nitier , " " The Devil in a Holy - Water ...
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... lived , I think , in Lincolnshire , in- formed the fociety , that in the autumn of that year , which had been very rainy , many of his fheep were in fo bad a con- dition as to health , that he feared they would die ; he however put them ...
... lived , I think , in Lincolnshire , in- formed the fociety , that in the autumn of that year , which had been very rainy , many of his fheep were in fo bad a con- dition as to health , that he feared they would die ; he however put them ...
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... lived long enough to change his opi- nion . The Dean's political fentiments occa- fionally show themselves in a humorous way ; and in this temper we find him writing what he calls the Courtier's Creed . The " three o- riginal poems ...
... lived long enough to change his opi- nion . The Dean's political fentiments occa- fionally show themselves in a humorous way ; and in this temper we find him writing what he calls the Courtier's Creed . The " three o- riginal poems ...
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... lived . In the days of Peter the Third of Caf- tile , " a canon of the cathedral of Seville , affected in his dress , and particularly in his fhoes , could not find a workman to his like- ing . An unfortunate fhoemaker , to whom he ...
... lived . In the days of Peter the Third of Caf- tile , " a canon of the cathedral of Seville , affected in his dress , and particularly in his fhoes , could not find a workman to his like- ing . An unfortunate fhoemaker , to whom he ...
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