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... half - witted people ; they know juft enough to excite their pride , not enough to cure it . A man of merit in place , is never troublelome by his pride : he is not elated with the poft he fills , becaufe of a greater he has not , of ...
... half - witted people ; they know juft enough to excite their pride , not enough to cure it . A man of merit in place , is never troublelome by his pride : he is not elated with the poft he fills , becaufe of a greater he has not , of ...
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... half the fize : his anfwer , when they expreffed their fur- prize , was , that marrying would enable him to go through very well . He had acquaintance in Norfolk and Suffolk , and took his first wife , with the farm , from the dry ...
... half the fize : his anfwer , when they expreffed their fur- prize , was , that marrying would enable him to go through very well . He had acquaintance in Norfolk and Suffolk , and took his first wife , with the farm , from the dry ...
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... half my time . If it was not for the pleasure I have in fometimes writing to my friends , and at others in pe- ruling that philanthropic author , Dr. Sterne , I fhould be eat up with the vapours . - Who can read thofe beautiful ftories ...
... half my time . If it was not for the pleasure I have in fometimes writing to my friends , and at others in pe- ruling that philanthropic author , Dr. Sterne , I fhould be eat up with the vapours . - Who can read thofe beautiful ftories ...
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... half a crown , which was all that was wanted . " Twas an impofition I fuppofe every traveller muft fubmit to , or fuffer the whole of his travelling neceffaries to be difcompofed , which is of more confequence than complying with the ...
... half a crown , which was all that was wanted . " Twas an impofition I fuppofe every traveller muft fubmit to , or fuffer the whole of his travelling neceffaries to be difcompofed , which is of more confequence than complying with the ...
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... half a dozen , befides two or three large flags , bearing the united croffes of St. George and St. Andrew . As if I was not fufficiently mortified at what I had feen , the guide told me that a great many more colours , taken from the ...
... half a dozen , befides two or three large flags , bearing the united croffes of St. George and St. Andrew . As if I was not fufficiently mortified at what I had feen , the guide told me that a great many more colours , taken from the ...
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