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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... mind became conscious of powers disquisitions , and subtile distinctions which it did not formerly perceive ... mind are unable to comprehend , these speculations were , their novelty or to resolve . These over curious roused , and their ...
... mind became conscious of powers disquisitions , and subtile distinctions which it did not formerly perceive ... mind are unable to comprehend , these speculations were , their novelty or to resolve . These over curious roused , and their ...
Page 165
... mind , sententious brevity , for antithesis and however , were probably exceeded by point . Single ideas appear with so his powers in conversation . He ap- much lustre and prominence , that the peared among his friends with an connexion ...
... mind , sententious brevity , for antithesis and however , were probably exceeded by point . Single ideas appear with so his powers in conversation . He ap- much lustre and prominence , that the peared among his friends with an connexion ...
Page 361
... mind is sae toss- wolves , and Widow Butler's bull - ed that she can be neither ca'd fit to segg , that I used to see spieling up live or die , have some compassion on my bed , I am thinking now about on our misery ! -Save an honest a ...
... mind is sae toss- wolves , and Widow Butler's bull - ed that she can be neither ca'd fit to segg , that I used to see spieling up live or die , have some compassion on my bed , I am thinking now about on our misery ! -Save an honest a ...
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On the Constitution of England Montesquieu | 3 |
Necessity of the Union | 23 |
The Feudal System | 30 |
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