Table Talk: Or, Original Essays on Men and Manners, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1824 - 401 páginas |
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... wish to vegetate like the country . I am not for criticising hedge - rows and black cattle . I go out of town in order to forget the town and all that is in it . There are those who for this purpose go to watering - places , and carry ...
... wish to vegetate like the country . I am not for criticising hedge - rows and black cattle . I go out of town in order to forget the town and all that is in it . There are those who for this purpose go to watering - places , and carry ...
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... wish to have some one with me to admire the swelling theme ; or I could be more content , were it possible for me still to hear his echoing voice in the woods of All - Foxden . They had " that fine madness in them which our first poets ...
... wish to have some one with me to admire the swelling theme ; or I could be more content , were it possible for me still to hear his echoing voice in the woods of All - Foxden . They had " that fine madness in them which our first poets ...
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... wish to forget painful thoughts , do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recallthem : but we can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth . I should on this account like well ...
... wish to forget painful thoughts , do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recallthem : but we can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth . I should on this account like well ...
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... wish to associate with in almost every line of life , ( or at least of intellectual pur- suit , ) are to be met with there . It is hard if out of a million of people you cannot find half a dozen to your liking . Individuals may seem ...
... wish to associate with in almost every line of life , ( or at least of intellectual pur- suit , ) are to be met with there . It is hard if out of a million of people you cannot find half a dozen to your liking . Individuals may seem ...
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... wishes . 66 If it had been so — if we had done such and such a thing ” —we try it in a thousand different ways , and are just as far off the mark as ever . We appealed to chance in the first instance , and yet , when it has decided ...
... wishes . 66 If it had been so — if we had done such and such a thing ” —we try it in a thousand different ways , and are just as far off the mark as ever . We appealed to chance in the first instance , and yet , when it has decided ...
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