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... object , and inform me where one is to be met with ? J. Portrait of Whiston . Having an original and characteristic half - length portrait in oil , bearing to the left corner ( below an oval , such as is found about portraits by Alex ...
... object , and inform me where one is to be met with ? J. Portrait of Whiston . Having an original and characteristic half - length portrait in oil , bearing to the left corner ( below an oval , such as is found about portraits by Alex ...
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... object should not suffer from the effects of their misprint . And as the work they have ap- propriated is only used by a small public , and a reading one , the mode of exposure which I here adopt will probably be sufficient . The ...
... object should not suffer from the effects of their misprint . And as the work they have ap- propriated is only used by a small public , and a reading one , the mode of exposure which I here adopt will probably be sufficient . The ...
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... object , and inform me where one is to be met with ? J. ― Portrait of Whiston . Having an original and characteristic half - length portrait in oil , bearing to the left corner ( below an oval , such as is found about portraits by Alex ...
... object , and inform me where one is to be met with ? J. ― Portrait of Whiston . Having an original and characteristic half - length portrait in oil , bearing to the left corner ( below an oval , such as is found about portraits by Alex ...
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... object , and inform me where one is to be met with ? J. Portrait of Whiston . — Having an original and characteristic half - length portrait in oil , bearing to the left corner ( below an oval , such as is found about portraits by Alex ...
... object , and inform me where one is to be met with ? J. Portrait of Whiston . — Having an original and characteristic half - length portrait in oil , bearing to the left corner ( below an oval , such as is found about portraits by Alex ...
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... object . In like manner horses , when taken to a fair , wear on their heads a white leather kind of bridle ; and ( to come nearer home ) when a young lady has attained a certain age , and begins to look with anxious eye to future ...
... object . In like manner horses , when taken to a fair , wear on their heads a white leather kind of bridle ; and ( to come nearer home ) when a young lady has attained a certain age , and begins to look with anxious eye to future ...
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