Essay on Irish bulls, by R. L. and M. EdgeworthJ. Johnson, 1808 - 280 страница |
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... miss Allscrip , in the excellent comedy of the Heiress- " Dear lady Émily , don't you doat upon sense folly ? " " To ecstacy ! " replies her ladyship , “ I only despair of seeing it well kept up . We flatter ourselves " there is no ...
... miss Allscrip , in the excellent comedy of the Heiress- " Dear lady Émily , don't you doat upon sense folly ? " " To ecstacy ! " replies her ladyship , “ I only despair of seeing it well kept up . We flatter ourselves " there is no ...
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... miss had no immediate opportunity of obtain- ing information . Had the world always judged upon such subjects with similar candour , the reproachful cant term of cock- ney would never have been disgracefully naturalised in the english ...
... miss had no immediate opportunity of obtain- ing information . Had the world always judged upon such subjects with similar candour , the reproachful cant term of cock- ney would never have been disgracefully naturalised in the english ...
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... it pleases God to take me I shall never be missed out of this world , so much as by a dog - And why should I ? Having never in my time done good to any - but evil - which I have lived G 6 THE HIBERNIAN MENDICANT . 131.
... it pleases God to take me I shall never be missed out of this world , so much as by a dog - And why should I ? Having never in my time done good to any - but evil - which I have lived G 6 THE HIBERNIAN MENDICANT . 131.
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... missed me - I hit him . Rose ran in between us to get the musquet from my hand : it was load- ed , and went off in the struggle , and the ball lodged in her body - she fell ! and what happened next I cannot tell , for the sight left my ...
... missed me - I hit him . Rose ran in between us to get the musquet from my hand : it was load- ed , and went off in the struggle , and the ball lodged in her body - she fell ! and what happened next I cannot tell , for the sight left my ...
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... Miss Shar- person's . Sir John set Queasy down with- out having giving him the least hint of his designs upon the lady ; but as he helped him out with the Sèvre china , he looked through the large opening double doors of the hall and ...
... Miss Shar- person's . Sir John set Queasy down with- out having giving him the least hint of his designs upon the lady ; but as he helped him out with the Sèvre china , he looked through the large opening double doors of the hall and ...
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