Essay on Irish bulls, by R. L. and M. EdgeworthJ. Johnson, 1808 - 280 страница |
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... ” " No ; I wish I had ; for perhaps they * Iliad , 6th book , 1. 432 , Andromache says to Hector , " You will make your son an orphan , and your wife a widow . " would love me , and not laugh at me , 56 : LITTLE DOMINICK .
... ” " No ; I wish I had ; for perhaps they * Iliad , 6th book , 1. 432 , Andromache says to Hector , " You will make your son an orphan , and your wife a widow . " would love me , and not laugh at me , 56 : LITTLE DOMINICK .
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... wishes . His wishes were not extravagant : his utmost ambition was to return to his native country with a fortune that should enable him to live independently of all the world , especially of some of his relations , who had not used him ...
... wishes . His wishes were not extravagant : his utmost ambition was to return to his native country with a fortune that should enable him to live independently of all the world , especially of some of his relations , who had not used him ...
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... wish to see as well as hear the petitioner . At first view you might have taken him for a Spaniard : he was tall ; and if he had been a gen tleman , you would have said that there was an air of dignity in his figure . He seemed very old ...
... wish to see as well as hear the petitioner . At first view you might have taken him for a Spaniard : he was tall ; and if he had been a gen tleman , you would have said that there was an air of dignity in his figure . He seemed very old ...
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... wishes for a long lease of his land he says , " I would be proud to live on your honour's land as long as grass grows or water runs . " One of our English poets has nearly the same idea , As long as streams in silver mazes run , Or 150 ...
... wishes for a long lease of his land he says , " I would be proud to live on your honour's land as long as grass grows or water runs . " One of our English poets has nearly the same idea , As long as streams in silver mazes run , Or 150 ...
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... discussed , and , at last , the Irishman said , " Whatever our political opinions may be , there is one wish in which we shall all agree , that the union may make us better CHAPTER XII Bath Coach Conversation CHAPTER XIII.
... discussed , and , at last , the Irishman said , " Whatever our political opinions may be , there is one wish in which we shall all agree , that the union may make us better CHAPTER XII Bath Coach Conversation CHAPTER XIII.
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Страница 84 - Boeotian absurdity of our neighbours. What can, at first view, appear a grosser blunder than that of the Irishman who begged a friend to look over his library, to find for him the history of the world before the creation? Yet this anachronism of ideas is not unparalleled; it is matched, though on a more contracted scale, by an inscription on a British finger-post— "Had you seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your eyes, and bless Marshal Wade!
Страница 124 - Ye are the eldest man that I can espy in all this company, so that if any man can tell any cause of it, ye of likelihood can say most of it, or at leastwise more than any man here assembled. Yea, forsooth, good Master...
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