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... offer this Selection to the Public , with a full conviction , that judicious teachers will imme- diately perceive its obvious utility.That excellent Collection of moral and instructive Essays , & c . THE PLEASING INSTRUCTOR , and other ...
... offer this Selection to the Public , with a full conviction , that judicious teachers will imme- diately perceive its obvious utility.That excellent Collection of moral and instructive Essays , & c . THE PLEASING INSTRUCTOR , and other ...
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... offered their direction and affiftance . I then looked round with anxious eagerness ; and first turning my eyes behind me , faw a ftream flowing through flowery islands , which every one that failed along feemed to behold with pleasure ...
... offered their direction and affiftance . I then looked round with anxious eagerness ; and first turning my eyes behind me , faw a ftream flowing through flowery islands , which every one that failed along feemed to behold with pleasure ...
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... offered them as the folace of their labours ; yet in effect none feemed lefs to expect destruction than those to whom it was moft dreadful ; they all had the art of concealing their danger from themselves ; and those who knew their ...
... offered them as the folace of their labours ; yet in effect none feemed lefs to expect destruction than those to whom it was moft dreadful ; they all had the art of concealing their danger from themselves ; and those who knew their ...
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... offered ; he em- braced it with ardour ; fo that , travelling by night , and lodging in caverns by day , to fhorten a long ftory , he at laft arrived in Rome . The fame day on which Al- cander arrived , Septimius fat administering ...
... offered ; he em- braced it with ardour ; fo that , travelling by night , and lodging in caverns by day , to fhorten a long ftory , he at laft arrived in Rome . The fame day on which Al- cander arrived , Septimius fat administering ...
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... offered nothing in his own vindication , the judge was proceed- ing to doom him to a moft cruel and ignominious death , when the attention of the multitude was soon divided by another object . The robber , who had been really guilty ...
... offered nothing in his own vindication , the judge was proceed- ing to doom him to a moft cruel and ignominious death , when the attention of the multitude was soon divided by another object . The robber , who had been really guilty ...
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