The Port Folio, Volumes 1-2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1806 |
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... respecting the legitimacy of this word , it is unfortunately but ill adapted to represent the meaning of like Job's , or a race - horse , like the famous Eclipse , or a dray ... respect for the name of Jo- seph . The 2 THE PORT FOLIO .
... respecting the legitimacy of this word , it is unfortunately but ill adapted to represent the meaning of like Job's , or a race - horse , like the famous Eclipse , or a dray ... respect for the name of Jo- seph . The 2 THE PORT FOLIO .
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... you absent when I come , And often too your man says , " Not at home ; " Two miles to see you I would gladly trudge , But four to miss you I confess I grudge . respect , rather than of contempt . The irritated man 16 THE PORT FOLIO .
... you absent when I come , And often too your man says , " Not at home ; " Two miles to see you I would gladly trudge , But four to miss you I confess I grudge . respect , rather than of contempt . The irritated man 16 THE PORT FOLIO .
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respect , rather than of contempt . The irritated man of Uz , therefore , with singular sagacity , implores that he might write a book . The vanity of authorship , Job probably argued , will induce the scribbler to publish ideas crude ...
respect , rather than of contempt . The irritated man of Uz , therefore , with singular sagacity , implores that he might write a book . The vanity of authorship , Job probably argued , will induce the scribbler to publish ideas crude ...
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... respect , I may with confidence apply to them the panegyric which Quintilian pronounces on the two great historians of ancient Greece ; and , per- haps , if I were inclined to characterize the beauties most prominent in each , I might ...
... respect , I may with confidence apply to them the panegyric which Quintilian pronounces on the two great historians of ancient Greece ; and , per- haps , if I were inclined to characterize the beauties most prominent in each , I might ...
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... respect for yourself . You " Tis observable , in many places of were not made for this . I might ask scripture , that our blessed Saviour , in you to have more respect for human describing the day of judgment , does it nature ; for that ...
... respect for yourself . You " Tis observable , in many places of were not made for this . I might ask scripture , that our blessed Saviour , in you to have more respect for human describing the day of judgment , does it nature ; for that ...
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