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... object , then , was not to accumulate a list of names , but to give fair specimens of English prose as it has been written during the last five hundred years , I was not forced , by an array of names , to spoil and mutilate the several ...
... object , then , was not to accumulate a list of names , but to give fair specimens of English prose as it has been written during the last five hundred years , I was not forced , by an array of names , to spoil and mutilate the several ...
Page 74
... objects , hearbs , trees : and to comfort his misery , he receives many delightsome smels , and fils his ears with that sweet and various harmony of birdes . Good God ! ( saith he ) what a company of pleasures hast thou made for man ...
... objects , hearbs , trees : and to comfort his misery , he receives many delightsome smels , and fils his ears with that sweet and various harmony of birdes . Good God ! ( saith he ) what a company of pleasures hast thou made for man ...
Page 76
... away melancholy ; if not for ever , yet it must needs expell it for a time . Radzivilius was much taken with the bassas palace in Cairo ; and , amongst many other objects which that place afforded , with that solemnity of 76 BURTON .
... away melancholy ; if not for ever , yet it must needs expell it for a time . Radzivilius was much taken with the bassas palace in Cairo ; and , amongst many other objects which that place afforded , with that solemnity of 76 BURTON .
Page 77
From Maundevile to Thackeray Arthur Howard Galton. objects which that place afforded , with that solemnity of cutting the bankes of Nilus , by Imbram Bassa , when it overflowed , besides two or three hundred guilded gallies on the water ...
From Maundevile to Thackeray Arthur Howard Galton. objects which that place afforded , with that solemnity of cutting the bankes of Nilus , by Imbram Bassa , when it overflowed , besides two or three hundred guilded gallies on the water ...
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... objects of any mans sport , or malice , or revenge . The great one of the fair laughing still at all that befell them . But the men being patient , and not rendering railing for railing , but contrarywise blessing , and giving good ...
... objects of any mans sport , or malice , or revenge . The great one of the fair laughing still at all that befell them . But the men being patient , and not rendering railing for railing , but contrarywise blessing , and giving good ...
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