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... observed by many societies of men and women , was only taken from a letter addressed to his sister for the government of the house over which she presided , and from his sermons on the common life of the Clergy . But the two principal ...
... observed by many societies of men and women , was only taken from a letter addressed to his sister for the government of the house over which she presided , and from his sermons on the common life of the Clergy . But the two principal ...
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... observation . It had been customary in previous administrations , but it reached its maximum under Walpole . It was just before Walpole's day that the Speaker of the House of Commons ( Sir John Trevor ) , on one occasion , accepted a ...
... observation . It had been customary in previous administrations , but it reached its maximum under Walpole . It was just before Walpole's day that the Speaker of the House of Commons ( Sir John Trevor ) , on one occasion , accepted a ...
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... observed just now that some happy accident will often give a direction to the individual , and be the means of much eventual benefit to him . Mr. Willmott , in his pleasing " Journal of Summer Time in the Country , " gives some ...
... observed just now that some happy accident will often give a direction to the individual , and be the means of much eventual benefit to him . Mr. Willmott , in his pleasing " Journal of Summer Time in the Country , " gives some ...
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... observation , and led him to consider the vibrations of the pendulum . A sheet of paper sent from the press , with the letters accidentally raised , suggests the embossed alphabet for the blind ; and a physician lying awake and 37.
... observation , and led him to consider the vibrations of the pendulum . A sheet of paper sent from the press , with the letters accidentally raised , suggests the embossed alphabet for the blind ; and a physician lying awake and 37.
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... observed , the information given to us by some operation of our own minds : unless we strive to exercise our own powers in any particular department . How- ever true it may be that happy accidents might , at a critical junc- ture , have ...
... observed , the information given to us by some operation of our own minds : unless we strive to exercise our own powers in any particular department . How- ever true it may be that happy accidents might , at a critical junc- ture , have ...
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Страница 65 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
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