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| William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 410 pages
...what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. "They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld, and the women more horrible... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 414 pages
...what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. ness and shame ; filthy in word, filthy in thought, furious, raging, obscene.... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1869 - 414 pages
...what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. ness and shame ; filthy in word, filthy in thought, furious, raging, obscene.... | |
| Jonathan Swift - Castaways - 1871 - 406 pages
...what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld ; and the women were more horrible... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. " They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld, and the women more horrible... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1872 - 444 pages
...what kings cr great persons they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld ; and the women were more horrible... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pages
...are, is by asking them what kings or great persoos they were fourscore years old. " They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld, and the women more horrible than the men ; besides the usual deformities in extreme old age, they acquired an additional ghastliness, in proportion... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1879 - 466 pages
...what kings or great persona they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld; and the women were more horrible... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 pages
...what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. "They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld, and the women more horrible... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 732 pages
...what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. trees and assault him, and he describes himself as " almost stifled with the filth... | |
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