The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The CItizen of the world. Polite learning in EuropeG. Bell and sons, 1885 |
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... increase our positive satisfactions XXLV . The ardour of the people of London , in running after sights and monsters XLVI . [ The Looking - glass of Lao , ] A dream XLVII . Misery best relieved by dissipation XLVIII . The absurdity of ...
... increase our positive satisfactions XXLV . The ardour of the people of London , in running after sights and monsters XLVI . [ The Looking - glass of Lao , ] A dream XLVII . Misery best relieved by dissipation XLVIII . The absurdity of ...
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... shopkeeper and his journeyman LXXVIII . The French ridiculed after their own manner LXXIX . The preparations of both theatres for a winter cam- paign • LETTER LXXX . The evil tendency of increasing penal laws CONTENTS . 5.
... shopkeeper and his journeyman LXXVIII . The French ridiculed after their own manner LXXIX . The preparations of both theatres for a winter cam- paign • LETTER LXXX . The evil tendency of increasing penal laws CONTENTS . 5.
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Oliver Goldsmith J. W. M. Gibbs. LETTER LXXX . The evil tendency of increasing penal laws , or enforc- ing even those already in being with rigour • LXXXI . The ladies ' trains ridiculed LXXXII . The sciences useful in a populous state ...
Oliver Goldsmith J. W. M. Gibbs. LETTER LXXX . The evil tendency of increasing penal laws , or enforc- ing even those already in being with rigour • LXXXI . The ladies ' trains ridiculed LXXXII . The sciences useful in a populous state ...
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... increase your curious collection of paintings , medals , and monsters . But what surprises more than all the rest is what I have just now been credibly informed of by one of this country . " Most ladies here , " says he , " have two ...
... increase your curious collection of paintings , medals , and monsters . But what surprises more than all the rest is what I have just now been credibly informed of by one of this country . " Most ladies here , " says he , " have two ...
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... increase his collection ; from thence he proceeds to the ordinary , enquires what news , and , treasuring up every acquisition there , hunts about all the evening in quest of more , and carefully adds it to the rest . Thus at night he ...
... increase his collection ; from thence he proceeds to the ordinary , enquires what news , and , treasuring up every acquisition there , hunts about all the evening in quest of more , and carefully adds it to the rest . Thus at night he ...
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