The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The CItizen of the world. Polite learning in EuropeG. Bell and sons, 1885 |
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... acquaintance seemed much more hardy than I , and went over the ice with intrepidity . Some carried their works to the fair on sledges , some on carts , and those which were more voluminous , were conveyed in waggons . Their temerity ...
... acquaintance seemed much more hardy than I , and went over the ice with intrepidity . Some carried their works to the fair on sledges , some on carts , and those which were more voluminous , were conveyed in waggons . Their temerity ...
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... acquainted . The remarks of a man who has been but three days in the country , can only be those obvious circumstances which force themselves upon the imagina- tion . I consider myself here as a newly created being , introduced into a ...
... acquainted . The remarks of a man who has been but three days in the country , can only be those obvious circumstances which force themselves upon the imagina- tion . I consider myself here as a newly created being , introduced into a ...
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... acquaintance ; stoop to flattery , and you conciliate their friendship and esteem . They bear hunger , cold , fatigue , and all the miseries of life without shrinking ; danger only calls forth their fortitude ; they even exult in ...
... acquaintance ; stoop to flattery , and you conciliate their friendship and esteem . They bear hunger , cold , fatigue , and all the miseries of life without shrinking ; danger only calls forth their fortitude ; they even exult in ...
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... acquaint the reader , that the greatest part of the following letter seems to him to be little more than a rhapsody of sentences borrowed from Confucius , the Chinese philosopher . " A WIFE , a daughter , carried into captivity to ...
... acquaint the reader , that the greatest part of the following letter seems to him to be little more than a rhapsody of sentences borrowed from Confucius , the Chinese philosopher . " A WIFE , a daughter , carried into captivity to ...
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... acquaintance , and , with the utmost impatience , expected an interview . I will not deny , my dear Fum Hoam , but that my vanity was raised at such an invitation . I flattered myself that she had seen me in some public place , and had ...
... acquaintance , and , with the utmost impatience , expected an interview . I will not deny , my dear Fum Hoam , but that my vanity was raised at such an invitation . I flattered myself that she had seen me in some public place , and had ...
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