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... the ground , and of the usurpation and progress of Oliver , with his serious and
deliberative manner of forming an angle with his arms before he closed with a
soul reviving pinch ; though you forgot to mention whether he implored a blessing
.
... the ground , and of the usurpation and progress of Oliver , with his serious and
deliberative manner of forming an angle with his arms before he closed with a
soul reviving pinch ; though you forgot to mention whether he implored a blessing
.
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In like manner the feast of ingatherings , to prevent moralizing on the fall of the
leaf . Simili modo , the military , who are daily threatened with destruction , are
your only men of perpetual gaiety , who complete the parallelogram of dissipation
.
In like manner the feast of ingatherings , to prevent moralizing on the fall of the
leaf . Simili modo , the military , who are daily threatened with destruction , are
your only men of perpetual gaiety , who complete the parallelogram of dissipation
.
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If none of these expedients answer his purpose , he has recourse to the margin , -
a very convenient apartment for all manner of pedantry and impertinence . There
is not an author , however correct , but is more or less faulty in this respect .
If none of these expedients answer his purpose , he has recourse to the margin , -
a very convenient apartment for all manner of pedantry and impertinence . There
is not an author , however correct , but is more or less faulty in this respect .
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He says that my manner of reading tragedy was comical : It may be so ; but I
cannot help thinking that his manner of reasoning is at least equally so , when he
infers that , because the passage I quoted was an argument against beheading ...
He says that my manner of reading tragedy was comical : It may be so ; but I
cannot help thinking that his manner of reasoning is at least equally so , when he
infers that , because the passage I quoted was an argument against beheading ...
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Robert Kerr. in this manner , it would no doubt save a great many lives . You
reproach me with having been bred in a printers shop ; a sure proof that the letter
was not wrote by a printer , who could never reckon his own profession an
indignity .
Robert Kerr. in this manner , it would no doubt save a great many lives . You
reproach me with having been bred in a printers shop ; a sure proof that the letter
was not wrote by a printer , who could never reckon his own profession an
indignity .
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| Título | Memoirs of the life, writings and correspondence of W. Smellie, Volume 1 Memoirs of the life, writings and correspondence of W. Smellie, Robert Kerr |
| Autor | Robert Kerr |
| Publicado | 1811 |
| Original de | Oxford University |
| Digitalizado | 16 jun. 2006 |
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