The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss, 1809 |
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... tail ? That is the question ! Thoughtless mor- tals , go build houses , plant orchards , purchase estates , for to - morrow you die . But what if the comet should not come ? That would be equally fatal . Comets are servants which ...
... tail ? That is the question ! Thoughtless mor- tals , go build houses , plant orchards , purchase estates , for to - morrow you die . But what if the comet should not come ? That would be equally fatal . Comets are servants which ...
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... tail to fit it out completely for ter- restrial admiration . She Saturday . The moon is I find at her old pranks . Her appulses , librations , and other irregularities in- deed amaze me . My daughter too is this morning gone off with a ...
... tail to fit it out completely for ter- restrial admiration . She Saturday . The moon is I find at her old pranks . Her appulses , librations , and other irregularities in- deed amaze me . My daughter too is this morning gone off with a ...
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... tails , is much more capable of subsistence and expedition , than another , which is furnished with but one tail and many heads . Obvious as these truths are , the people of this country seem insensible of their force . Not satisfied ...
... tails , is much more capable of subsistence and expedition , than another , which is furnished with but one tail and many heads . Obvious as these truths are , the people of this country seem insensible of their force . Not satisfied ...
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... tail - carriers , now deplore a literary . For my own part , my friend , I have seen enough of presuming ignorance , never to venerate wisdom but where it actually appears . I have received lite- rary titles and distinctions myself ...
... tail - carriers , now deplore a literary . For my own part , my friend , I have seen enough of presuming ignorance , never to venerate wisdom but where it actually appears . I have received lite- rary titles and distinctions myself ...
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... tail of the intended procession . All men are eloquent upon their favourite topic ; and this seemed peculiarly adapted to the size and turn of his understanding . His whole mind was blazoned over with a variety of glit- tering images ...
... tail of the intended procession . All men are eloquent upon their favourite topic ; and this seemed peculiarly adapted to the size and turn of his understanding . His whole mind was blazoned over with a variety of glit- tering images ...
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