The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss, 1809 |
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... traveller meets upon entering that king- dom , is an odd sort of a staring vivacity in every eye , not excepting even the children ; the people , it seems , have got it into their heads that they have more wit than others , and so stare ...
... traveller meets upon entering that king- dom , is an odd sort of a staring vivacity in every eye , not excepting even the children ; the people , it seems , have got it into their heads that they have more wit than others , and so stare ...
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... traveller equivalent information ; and I am apt to think , that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received , would be welcome wherever he came . All his care in travelling should only be to suit his intellectual ...
... traveller equivalent information ; and I am apt to think , that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received , would be welcome wherever he came . All his care in travelling should only be to suit his intellectual ...
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... travellers . It will be there found , that they are as often deceived them- selves , as they attempt to deceive others ... traveller's diary ; but as to all the secrets of which the inhabitants are posses- sed , those are universally ...
... travellers . It will be there found , that they are as often deceived them- selves , as they attempt to deceive others ... traveller's diary ; but as to all the secrets of which the inhabitants are posses- sed , those are universally ...
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... traveller can give no other account of the wonders he sees performed , very contentedly ascribes them to the power of the devil . Are It was an usual observation of Boyle , the English chymist , that if every artist would but discover ...
... traveller can give no other account of the wonders he sees performed , very contentedly ascribes them to the power of the devil . Are It was an usual observation of Boyle , the English chymist , that if every artist would but discover ...
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... traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others ; and as he beholds , he learns wisdom , and feels the transience of every sublunary possession . Here , he cries , stood their citadel , now grown over with weeds ; there their senate ...
... traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others ; and as he beholds , he learns wisdom , and feels the transience of every sublunary possession . Here , he cries , stood their citadel , now grown over with weeds ; there their senate ...
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