The Edinburgh Observer: Or, Town and Country Magazine, Издања 1-11J. Moir, printer, 1817 |
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... character by the publication of a single Number . If assiduity and industry be essential to success , whatever may be its other merits , the Edinburgh Observer will not fail in securing some portion of the countenance and ap- probation ...
... character by the publication of a single Number . If assiduity and industry be essential to success , whatever may be its other merits , the Edinburgh Observer will not fail in securing some portion of the countenance and ap- probation ...
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... character . Nor do I wonder much to very seldom that the part of the world from which one see the English ridiculed and caricatured as they are , may happen to come ever creates a look of surprise , or a when I consider the objects that ...
... character . Nor do I wonder much to very seldom that the part of the world from which one see the English ridiculed and caricatured as they are , may happen to come ever creates a look of surprise , or a when I consider the objects that ...
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... character . They are of great an- tiquity and considerable civilization - possess much of the rigid , natural jealously and reserve of their neighbours , the Japanese and Chinese . On further acquaintance , they were found an in ...
... character . They are of great an- tiquity and considerable civilization - possess much of the rigid , natural jealously and reserve of their neighbours , the Japanese and Chinese . On further acquaintance , they were found an in ...
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... character , whether for the purpose of obtaining food or protection , they attach and accommodate themselves to man . The dog is proverbially his steady companion and faithful friend ; the hog , generally charged with gross- ness and ...
... character , whether for the purpose of obtaining food or protection , they attach and accommodate themselves to man . The dog is proverbially his steady companion and faithful friend ; the hog , generally charged with gross- ness and ...
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... characters , and if applause may be considered approbation , they have no cause for complaint . The rest of Britons , whom their o'er - cloyed country vomits forth to of the company , with few exceptions , comprises a " scum desperate ...
... characters , and if applause may be considered approbation , they have no cause for complaint . The rest of Britons , whom their o'er - cloyed country vomits forth to of the company , with few exceptions , comprises a " scum desperate ...
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Страница 166 - Come, my Corinna, come; and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green and trimmed with trees; see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch: each porch, each door, ere this, An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorn, neatly interwove; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
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