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... Turning to Spain , we discover that in her degenerate state , of the level and frequented roads from Valez - Malaga to Grenada , the once wealthy kingdom of the Arabian dynasties , no other trace scarcely now exists , save a precipitous ...
... Turning to Spain , we discover that in her degenerate state , of the level and frequented roads from Valez - Malaga to Grenada , the once wealthy kingdom of the Arabian dynasties , no other trace scarcely now exists , save a precipitous ...
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... turned the book topsy turvy ; but she never found out that there was any thing wrong in this . When about ten years of age , she began to scribble on scraps of paper , all sorts of compositions , songs , elegies , plays , farces , & c ...
... turned the book topsy turvy ; but she never found out that there was any thing wrong in this . When about ten years of age , she began to scribble on scraps of paper , all sorts of compositions , songs , elegies , plays , farces , & c ...
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... turned the leaves , and then saw with surprize and joy that he was perusing an account , which he found most favourable , of Evelina , beginning with the words , " A great variety of natural characters- " When he had finished the ...
... turned the leaves , and then saw with surprize and joy that he was perusing an account , which he found most favourable , of Evelina , beginning with the words , " A great variety of natural characters- " When he had finished the ...
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... turned angrily round upon him , and , clapping his hand rather loudly upon his knee , said , in a tone of displeasure , " What do you do there , Sir ? -Go to the table , Sir ! " • Mr. Boswell instantly , and with an air of affright ...
... turned angrily round upon him , and , clapping his hand rather loudly upon his knee , said , in a tone of displeasure , " What do you do there , Sir ? -Go to the table , Sir ! " • Mr. Boswell instantly , and with an air of affright ...
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... turned out to be the munificent Lady Mary Duncan , daughter of the Earl of Thanet . It is altogther out of our power to pursue the narrative of Madame D'Arblay farther than to mention , that the deeply lamented subject of this memoir ...
... turned out to be the munificent Lady Mary Duncan , daughter of the Earl of Thanet . It is altogther out of our power to pursue the narrative of Madame D'Arblay farther than to mention , that the deeply lamented subject of this memoir ...
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Page 215 - But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit; even so it is now.
Page 402 - The states severally have not retained their entire sovereignty. It has been shown that in becoming parts of a nation, not members of a league, they surrendered many of their essential parts of sovereignty.
Page 121 - But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and He that formed thee, O Israel : — " Fear not : for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art Mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee : when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Page 67 - Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe. When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe ; Like other charmers, wooing the caress More dazzlingly when daring in full dress ; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties — give me a cigar ! XX.
Page 30 - Doctor, and of every one else, when in that presence, he was unobservant, if not contemptuous. In truth, when he met with Dr. Johnson, he commonly forbore even answering anything that was said, or attending to anything that went forward, lest he should miss the smallest sound from that voice to which he paid such exclusive, though merited, homage. But the moment that voice burst forth, the attention which it excited in Mr. Boswell amounted almost to pain. His eyes goggled with eagerness ; he leant...
Page 104 - These regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with fatigue, and their limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of the gymnoti. ' In less than five minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ.
Page 251 - Honours know in general that there was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but many of the State's ships, and therefore I make it my humble request that your Honours would be pleased to send down some gentlemen to take an impartial and strict examination of the deportment of several commanders, that you may know who are to be confided in and who are not.
Page 360 - Elms ; he was in the hospital before I came into the field. I will not pretend to give you an account of the battle, knowing you have a better in the prints. Pray give my service to Mrs. Cook and her daughter, to Mr. Stoffet and his wife, and to Mr. Lyver, and Thomas Hogsdon and to Mr. Ragdell, and to all my friends and acquaintance in general who do ask after me. My love to Mrs.
Page 216 - ... he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Page 465 - DUELLING as a punishment is absurd; because it is an equal chance, whether the punishment fall upon the offender, or the person offended. Nor is it much better as a reparation; it being difficult to explain in what the satisfaction consists, or how it tends to undo the injury, or to afford a compensation for the damage already sustained. The truth is, it is not considered as either.