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... fashionable cote- ries everywhere were prodigal of conjectures from what mine the gold dust was brought to light for the commonwealth of letters . SALMAGUNDI was found at almost every tea- table . The sale announced the fact that ...
... fashionable cote- ries everywhere were prodigal of conjectures from what mine the gold dust was brought to light for the commonwealth of letters . SALMAGUNDI was found at almost every tea- table . The sale announced the fact that ...
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... fashionable nothings , with their idle brains , to the heads of great projectors teem- ing with national wonders . We see something of all in the book . There is that North River Society which figures on so many pages . Were the wits ...
... fashionable nothings , with their idle brains , to the heads of great projectors teem- ing with national wonders . We see something of all in the book . There is that North River Society which figures on so many pages . Were the wits ...
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... fashionable world ; nor in this shall we be governed by that carping spirit with which narrow - minded book - worm cynics squint at the little extravagances of the ton ; but with that liberal toleration which actuates every man of ...
... fashionable world ; nor in this shall we be governed by that carping spirit with which narrow - minded book - worm cynics squint at the little extravagances of the ton ; but with that liberal toleration which actuates every man of ...
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... fashionable world ; nor will the gentlemen who doze away their time in the circles of the haut - ton escape our currying . We mean those stupid fellows who sit stock - still upon their chairs , without saying a word , and then complain ...
... fashionable world ; nor will the gentlemen who doze away their time in the circles of the haut - ton escape our currying . We mean those stupid fellows who sit stock - still upon their chairs , without saying a word , and then complain ...
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... fashionable delayed their appearance until nine -nine being the number of the muses , and therefore the best possible hour for beginning to exhibit the graces . ( This is meant for a pretty play upon words , and I assure my read- ers ...
... fashionable delayed their appearance until nine -nine being the number of the muses , and therefore the best possible hour for beginning to exhibit the graces . ( This is meant for a pretty play upon words , and I assure my read- ers ...
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