The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The CItizen of the world. Polite learning in EuropeG. Bell and sons, 1885 |
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... soon after returned , to my great surprise , highly satisfied with his entertainment , and the bargains he had brought away . The success of such numbers at last began to operate upon me . If these , cried I , meet with favour and ...
... soon after returned , to my great surprise , highly satisfied with his entertainment , and the bargains he had brought away . The success of such numbers at last began to operate upon me . If these , cried I , meet with favour and ...
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... soon perceived that the ridicule lay not in them , but in me ; that I falsely condemned others for absurdity , because they happened to differ from a stan- dard originally founded in prejudice or partiality . I find no pleasure ...
... soon perceived that the ridicule lay not in them , but in me ; that I falsely condemned others for absurdity , because they happened to differ from a stan- dard originally founded in prejudice or partiality . I find no pleasure ...
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... soon strike a signal blow . We have seventeen flat - bottomed boats at Havre . The people are in excellent spirits , and our ministers make no difficulty in raising the supplies . We are all undone ; the people are discontented to the ...
... soon strike a signal blow . We have seventeen flat - bottomed boats at Havre . The people are in excellent spirits , and our ministers make no difficulty in raising the supplies . We are all undone ; the people are discontented to the ...
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... soon intend to visit it . There , I am told , I shall see justice done to deceased merit : none , I am told , are permitted to be buried there , but such as have adorned as well as improved mankind . There , no intruders , by the ...
... soon intend to visit it . There , I am told , I shall see justice done to deceased merit : none , I am told , are permitted to be buried there , but such as have adorned as well as improved mankind . There , no intruders , by the ...
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... soon they found that those tails entailed on them and their posterity for ever . " It is certain that the author had some ground for this description . Many of the English wear tails to their wigs to this very day , as a mark , I ...
... soon they found that those tails entailed on them and their posterity for ever . " It is certain that the author had some ground for this description . Many of the English wear tails to their wigs to this very day , as a mark , I ...
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