The British Essayists: The MirrorLittle, Brown, 1866 |
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... favour of gallantry , and allow them to have a great deal of weight , I cannot help thinking that , when considered with a view to our fraternity , it is subject to many inconveniences . Even under the management of the most prudent ...
... favour of gallantry , and allow them to have a great deal of weight , I cannot help thinking that , when considered with a view to our fraternity , it is subject to many inconveniences . Even under the management of the most prudent ...
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... favoured regions to the heaths and mountains of their native land . In cul- tivated society , this sentiment of Home cherishes the useful virtues of domestic life ; it opposes , to the tumultuous pleasures of dissipation and intemper ...
... favoured regions to the heaths and mountains of their native land . In cul- tivated society , this sentiment of Home cherishes the useful virtues of domestic life ; it opposes , to the tumultuous pleasures of dissipation and intemper ...
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... favour of a heretic and a rebel . ' " We had scarcely time to draw breath after this story , when a mean - looking elderly man said , with the affectation of modest dignity : ' I had the happi- ness to be known to M. de Villars , and he ...
... favour of a heretic and a rebel . ' " We had scarcely time to draw breath after this story , when a mean - looking elderly man said , with the affectation of modest dignity : ' I had the happi- ness to be known to M. de Villars , and he ...
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... favour . She was beauti- ful , almost beyond any thing I had ever seen ; and though , perhaps , there was not in her countenance any expression strongly marked , there was , never- theless , a gentleness and a sweetness in her whole ...
... favour . She was beauti- ful , almost beyond any thing I had ever seen ; and though , perhaps , there was not in her countenance any expression strongly marked , there was , never- theless , a gentleness and a sweetness in her whole ...
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... favour , I attributed this to her compliance with the cautious prudence of a mother , which would be removed by an open declaration of my attachment , and a pro- posal of marriage in form . " Desirous to interest the mother in my favour ...
... favour , I attributed this to her compliance with the cautious prudence of a mother , which would be removed by an open declaration of my attachment , and a pro- posal of marriage in form . " Desirous to interest the mother in my favour ...
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