The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The CItizen of the world. Polite learning in EuropeG. Bell and sons, 1885 |
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... occasion [ The Conjurer and the Tailor . The Goose and the Mastiff . The Painter who tried to please the whole world . ] LXII . An authentic history of Catharina Alexowna , wife of Peter the Great • 229 232 LXIII . The rise or decline ...
... occasion [ The Conjurer and the Tailor . The Goose and the Mastiff . The Painter who tried to please the whole world . ] LXII . An authentic history of Catharina Alexowna , wife of Peter the Great • 229 232 LXIII . The rise or decline ...
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... occasion [ On Bearing Misfortune . ] XCVI . The condolence and congratulation upon the death of the late king ridiculed - English mourning de- scribed XCVII . Almost every subject of literature has been already exhausted • · XCVIII . A ...
... occasion [ On Bearing Misfortune . ] XCVI . The condolence and congratulation upon the death of the late king ridiculed - English mourning de- scribed XCVII . Almost every subject of literature has been already exhausted • · XCVIII . A ...
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... occasion , make my- self melancholy , by considering the capriciousness of public taste , or the mutability of fortune ; but , during this fit of morality , lest my reader should sleep , I'll take a nap myself , and when I awake , tell ...
... occasion , make my- self melancholy , by considering the capriciousness of public taste , or the mutability of fortune ; but , during this fit of morality , lest my reader should sleep , I'll take a nap myself , and when I awake , tell ...
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... occasion to use it ; my happiness it cannot improve , for I have already all that I want . My passage by sea from Rotterdam to England was more painful to me than all the journeys I ever made on land . I have traversed the immeasurable ...
... occasion to use it ; my happiness it cannot improve , for I have already all that I want . My passage by sea from Rotterdam to England was more painful to me than all the journeys I ever made on land . I have traversed the immeasurable ...
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... occasions . They like to have the face of various colours , as among the Tartars of Koreki , frequently sticking on , with spittle , little black patches on every part of it , except on the tip of the nose , which I have never seen with ...
... occasions . They like to have the face of various colours , as among the Tartars of Koreki , frequently sticking on , with spittle , little black patches on every part of it , except on the tip of the nose , which I have never seen with ...
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