Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 2S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 43
... hand had erred , by betraying his would merit them by a recantation ; heart , it should first be punished , by by giving him hopes of long enjoying a severe but just doom , and should those powerful friends , whom his be- first pay the ...
... hand had erred , by betraying his would merit them by a recantation ; heart , it should first be punished , by by giving him hopes of long enjoying a severe but just doom , and should those powerful friends , whom his be- first pay the ...
Page 352
... hand , can only serve to introduce the ho- she stood a moment gazing fixedly nest clergyman more particularly to on the bed in which the coffin of her our readers , Mr. Blattergowl had no grandson was deposited , and then sooner entered ...
... hand , can only serve to introduce the ho- she stood a moment gazing fixedly nest clergyman more particularly to on the bed in which the coffin of her our readers , Mr. Blattergowl had no grandson was deposited , and then sooner entered ...
Page 356
... hand as the hand of the migh- mighty men of war that came against ty Samson , every man's sword as Jacob in the day of his deliverance , that of Gideon , which turned not and the smoke is that of the devour - back from the slaughter ...
... hand as the hand of the migh- mighty men of war that came against ty Samson , every man's sword as Jacob in the day of his deliverance , that of Gideon , which turned not and the smoke is that of the devour - back from the slaughter ...
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On the Constitution of England Montesquieu | 3 |
Necessity of the Union | 23 |
The Feudal System | 30 |
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