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... letters with his knife on the bench- es in our public walks , the poet who writes verses with his pencil on the boards of the summer house are equally anxious that at least some part of them may escape the ravages of the gloomy Libitina ...
... letters with his knife on the bench- es in our public walks , the poet who writes verses with his pencil on the boards of the summer house are equally anxious that at least some part of them may escape the ravages of the gloomy Libitina ...
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... letter of honesty ; but he has lost that nobility of the heart , for which nothing can be a suffi- cient compensation . A minute attention to trifles has narrowed and contaminated his mind . He must be shut out from the congregation of ...
... letter of honesty ; but he has lost that nobility of the heart , for which nothing can be a suffi- cient compensation . A minute attention to trifles has narrowed and contaminated his mind . He must be shut out from the congregation of ...
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... letter H. The letter h begs leave to represent to Piomingo that he labors under many heavy and intolerable grievances . He has suffered injustice both from the antients and moderns , the learned and unlearned . Grammarians have long ...
... letter H. The letter h begs leave to represent to Piomingo that he labors under many heavy and intolerable grievances . He has suffered injustice both from the antients and moderns , the learned and unlearned . Grammarians have long ...
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... letter ; and they are wel- come to call him a " hard breathing " as long as they please . At present , he humbly solicits that he may be relieved , by the interposition of Piomingo , from the galling op- pression and intolerable ...
... letter ; and they are wel- come to call him a " hard breathing " as long as they please . At present , he humbly solicits that he may be relieved , by the interposition of Piomingo , from the galling op- pression and intolerable ...
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... letter , he finds that his undoubted and unalienable rights , privileges , and powers , have been suppressed and destroyed . Who now can hear any thing of the sound of h in a numerous class of words when pronounced by a Philadelphian ...
... letter , he finds that his undoubted and unalienable rights , privileges , and powers , have been suppressed and destroyed . Who now can hear any thing of the sound of h in a numerous class of words when pronounced by a Philadelphian ...
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Page 289 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 78 - There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men that were of old, men of renown.
Page 10 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 156 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.
Page 202 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 225 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Page 301 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Beth day and night.
Page 217 - For pronunciation the best general rule is, to consider those as the most elegant speakers who deviate least from the written words.