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This irregular assemblage offers , by night - especially , says the great unknown
Scotch novelist , " a spectacle which , though composed of the most vulgar
materials when they are separately considered , has , when they are combined ,
a ...
This irregular assemblage offers , by night - especially , says the great unknown
Scotch novelist , " a spectacle which , though composed of the most vulgar
materials when they are separately considered , has , when they are combined ,
a ...
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on those subjects which it is so becoming and graceful in a woman to know , they
prose away on mineralogy , politics , borough reform , and the corn - bill : “ they
are certainly the very flour of the sex , ” says Peter , in his excellent “ Leto ters to ...
on those subjects which it is so becoming and graceful in a woman to know , they
prose away on mineralogy , politics , borough reform , and the corn - bill : “ they
are certainly the very flour of the sex , ” says Peter , in his excellent “ Leto ters to ...
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Peter , in his “ Letters to his Kinsfolk , ” says that the Edinburgh Reviewers are
little better than deists . “ It is a very easy thing to deny , ( says he , ) that the
doctrines of religious scepticism have been ever openly and broadly
promulgated in the ...
Peter , in his “ Letters to his Kinsfolk , ” says that the Edinburgh Reviewers are
little better than deists . “ It is a very easy thing to deny , ( says he , ) that the
doctrines of religious scepticism have been ever openly and broadly
promulgated in the ...
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Iorace Walpole says that this world is a conedy to those who think , a tragedy to
those who feel . As you belong to the former class , I will indulge your risible
muscles , by groupng together , in this letter , the few ludicrous objects which
have ...
Iorace Walpole says that this world is a conedy to those who think , a tragedy to
those who feel . As you belong to the former class , I will indulge your risible
muscles , by groupng together , in this letter , the few ludicrous objects which
have ...
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Thus Ossian says : “ Often , blended with the gale , to some warrior's grave , the
spirits roll the mist , a gray dwelling to his ghost , until the songs arise . " These
superstitions have been rendered sacred by some of the most exquisite poetry in
...
Thus Ossian says : “ Often , blended with the gale , to some warrior's grave , the
spirits roll the mist , a gray dwelling to his ghost , until the songs arise . " These
superstitions have been rendered sacred by some of the most exquisite poetry in
...
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| Title | Franklin's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Written During the Years 1818, '19 & '20, from Edinburgh, London, The Highlands of Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1 Franklin's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Written During the Years 1818, '19 & '20, from Edinburgh, London, The Highlands of Scotland, and Ireland, Franklin James Didier |
| Author | Franklin James Didier |
| Publisher | J. Maxwell, 1822 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 7 Jul 2016 |
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