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Page 50
... less reason to do so , the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery .... His happy constitution ( even when he had , with great pains , half demolished it ) made him forget everything when he was ...
... less reason to do so , the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery .... His happy constitution ( even when he had , with great pains , half demolished it ) made him forget everything when he was ...
Page 101
... less real be- cause they endured for an unworthy end . Her maid , Mrs Petito , is no less striking in her way , though she is presented from one angle only , seen always in terms of ironical comedy . But listen to her as she thinks ...
... less real be- cause they endured for an unworthy end . Her maid , Mrs Petito , is no less striking in her way , though she is presented from one angle only , seen always in terms of ironical comedy . But listen to her as she thinks ...
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... less than the history of the events of his parish during his ministry from his ' placing ' in 1760 to his retirement in 1810. Annals of the Parish is an early example of the chronicle novel , and while there is a number of characters ...
... less than the history of the events of his parish during his ministry from his ' placing ' in 1760 to his retirement in 1810. Annals of the Parish is an early example of the chronicle novel , and while there is a number of characters ...
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