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... turned loofe into the wide world , without one faith- " ful friend to give them advice ; left to find their own " 6 way in a dark and rugged wilderness , with fnares , " and quickfands , and chasms around them . " If you follow fuch ...
... turned loofe into the wide world , without one faith- " ful friend to give them advice ; left to find their own " 6 way in a dark and rugged wilderness , with fnares , " and quickfands , and chasms around them . " If you follow fuch ...
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... turned afide to every cafcade , and pleafed himself with tracing the course of a gentle river that rolled among the trees , and watered a large region with innumerable circumvolutions . In thefe amufe- ments the hours paffed away ...
... turned afide to every cafcade , and pleafed himself with tracing the course of a gentle river that rolled among the trees , and watered a large region with innumerable circumvolutions . In thefe amufe- ments the hours paffed away ...
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... turning my eyes behind me , faw a ftream flowing through flowery islands , which every one that failed along feemed to behold with pleasure ; but no fooner touched , than the current , which , though not noify or turbulent , was yet ...
... turning my eyes behind me , faw a ftream flowing through flowery islands , which every one that failed along feemed to behold with pleasure ; but no fooner touched , than the current , which , though not noify or turbulent , was yet ...
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... turned for a moment , he foon forgot the rudder , and left himself again to the disposal of chance . This negligence did not proceed from indifference , or from wearinefs of their prefent condition ; for not one of those who thus rufhed ...
... turned for a moment , he foon forgot the rudder , and left himself again to the disposal of chance . This negligence did not proceed from indifference , or from wearinefs of their prefent condition ; for not one of those who thus rufhed ...
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... turning our notions on every fide , and holds them up to a light that discovers those latent flaws , which would probably have lain concealed in the gloom of unagitated abstraction . Accordingly , one may remark , that most of those ...
... turning our notions on every fide , and holds them up to a light that discovers those latent flaws , which would probably have lain concealed in the gloom of unagitated abstraction . Accordingly , one may remark , that most of those ...
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