The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Tom 17J. Limbird, 1831 Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc. |
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Strona ix
... eight speeches to eight meetings , travelled 120 miles , and entered court the next morning , wigged and gowned as if he had never quitted his chambers . fusal by King , Lords , and Commons , which MEMOIR OF LORD BROUGHAM . ix.
... eight speeches to eight meetings , travelled 120 miles , and entered court the next morning , wigged and gowned as if he had never quitted his chambers . fusal by King , Lords , and Commons , which MEMOIR OF LORD BROUGHAM . ix.
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... morning of July the 19th , in the year 1374 , was found dead in his library chair with his head resting upon a book . The chair is still shown amongst the precious relics of Arquà , which , from the uninter- rupted veneration that has ...
... morning of July the 19th , in the year 1374 , was found dead in his library chair with his head resting upon a book . The chair is still shown amongst the precious relics of Arquà , which , from the uninter- rupted veneration that has ...
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... morning for make visit to the house of a very nice family . When I am there some time , I demand of the young ladies , what for they not go out ? One reply , " Thank you , sir , we are always oblige for stay at home , because papa enjoy ...
... morning for make visit to the house of a very nice family . When I am there some time , I demand of the young ladies , what for they not go out ? One reply , " Thank you , sir , we are always oblige for stay at home , because papa enjoy ...
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... morning now is bright , Though cloudy it begun ; Why can't we aim above , as if We had call'd out the sun ? So up into the barmless air Their bullets they did send ; And may all other duels have That upshot in the end . We next quote ...
... morning now is bright , Though cloudy it begun ; Why can't we aim above , as if We had call'd out the sun ? So up into the barmless air Their bullets they did send ; And may all other duels have That upshot in the end . We next quote ...
Strona 23
... morning of a Shrove Tuesday , while asleep in their beds . This is the account generally re- ceived , although two lines in an epigram " On a Cock at Rochester , " by the witty Sir Charles Sedley , imply that the cock suffered this ...
... morning of a Shrove Tuesday , while asleep in their beds . This is the account generally re- ceived , although two lines in an epigram " On a Cock at Rochester , " by the witty Sir Charles Sedley , imply that the cock suffered this ...
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