Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... tell thee that five or six friends meeting at my chamber [ at Ox- ford in 1670-71 ] , and discoursing on a subject very remote from this , found themselves quickly at a stand by the difficulties that rose on every side . After we had a ...
... tell thee that five or six friends meeting at my chamber [ at Ox- ford in 1670-71 ] , and discoursing on a subject very remote from this , found themselves quickly at a stand by the difficulties that rose on every side . After we had a ...
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... tell a story of any thing they know ; and to correct at first the most remarkable fault they are guilty of in their way of putting it together . When that fault is cured , then to show them the next , and so on , till one after another ...
... tell a story of any thing they know ; and to correct at first the most remarkable fault they are guilty of in their way of putting it together . When that fault is cured , then to show them the next , and so on , till one after another ...
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... telling them my age , was dismissed , and never heard more of it - blessed be God . I had not been long in the ... tell ; for I cannot find any book which gives an account of that year ; but I have two which relate my improvements ...
... telling them my age , was dismissed , and never heard more of it - blessed be God . I had not been long in the ... tell ; for I cannot find any book which gives an account of that year ; but I have two which relate my improvements ...
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... tell us they feel all those passions in their blood that make them like other men , if not further from the virtue that truly dignifies . The lamentable ignorance and debauchery that now rages among too many of our greater sort of folks ...
... tell us they feel all those passions in their blood that make them like other men , if not further from the virtue that truly dignifies . The lamentable ignorance and debauchery that now rages among too many of our greater sort of folks ...
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... tell a that . Belf . Take that , sirrah ; I'll teach you to mutter : what , my man become my master . Lolp . Waunds ! give me ten times more , and send me whome again at after . What will awd maaster say to this ? I mun ne'er see the ...
... tell a that . Belf . Take that , sirrah ; I'll teach you to mutter : what , my man become my master . Lolp . Waunds ! give me ten times more , and send me whome again at after . What will awd maaster say to this ? I mun ne'er see the ...
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