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" All the magistrates round flocked hither to view this sight, whose arrival, and prolonged stay, was an additional expense, which the slender finances of this little community would ill afford ; besides, the quiet and retirement of the place was utterly... "
A Compendium of Zoology,: Being a Description of More Than Three Hundred ... - Page 221
by Thomas Boreman - 1818 - 366 pages
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The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks, Volume 2

Pliny (the Younger.) - Lawyers - 1807 - 390 pages
...expence, which the slender finances of this little community would ill afford; besides, that the quiet and retirement of the place was utterly destroyed....concourse, by privately killing the poor dolphin. And now, with what a flow of tenderness will you describe this affecting catastrophe ! f and how will...
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The Female Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse: Selected ...

Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...expense, which the slender finances of this little community would ill afford ; besides, that the quiet and retirement of the place was utterly destroyed....thought proper, therefore, to remove the occasion of thU concourse, by privately killingthe poor dolphin. And now,' with what a flow of tenderness will...
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The Nic-Nac; or, oracle of knowledge, Volume 1

1822 - 430 pages
...'finances of this community could ill afford ; besides, the quietness and retirement of the place were utterly destroyed : it was thought proper therefore...concourse, by privately killing the poor dolphin." Many stories I have heard of this fish, but none I doubt the authenticity of so much as of this. (CAREY...
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The Nic-nac: Or, Literary Cabinet, Volume 1

English literature - 1823 - 442 pages
...finances of this community could ill afford ; besides, the quietness and retirement of the place were utterly destroyed : it was thought proper therefore...concourse, by privately killing the poor dolphin." Many stories I have heard of this fish, but none I doubt the authenticity of so much as of this. (CAREY...
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A Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals: Interspersed with ...

Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...province, actuated by an absurd sense of superstition, poured some precious ointment over him as he lay on the shore : the novelty and smell of which made him...upon his back, and bring him back home, across the straits which separate Baise from Puzzoli: the boy died of an accidental illness, and for several days...
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The Penscellwood papers: essays by the author of 'Dr. Hookwell'.

Robert Armitage - 1846 - 660 pages
...expense, which the slender finances of this little community would ill afford, besides that the quiet and retirement of the place was utterly destroyed. It was thought proper to remove the occasion of this concourse, by privately killing the poor dolphin."* How beautifully...
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The letters of Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus: the tr. of Melmoth, revised ...

Pliny (the Younger) - 1878 - 466 pages
...expense, which the slender finances of this little community would ill afford ; besides, the quiet and retirement of the place was utterly destroyed....concourse, by privately killing the poor dolphin. And now, with what a flow of tenderness will you describe this affecting catastrophe !* and how will...
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The Letters of Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus

Pliny (the Younger.) - 1905 - 502 pages
...slender finances of this little community would ill afford ; besides, the quiet and retirement of ihe place was utterly destroyed. It was thought proper,...concourse, by privately killing the poor dolphin. And now, with what a flow of tenderness will you describe this affecting catastrophe 1 * and how Ģill...
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Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (the Younger) - Friendship - 1909 - 460 pages
...expense, which the slender finances of this little community would ill afford ; besides, the quiet and retirement of the place was utterly destroyed....concourse, by privately killing the poor dolphin. And now, with what a flow of tenderness will you describe this affecting catastrophe P and how will...
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Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Friendship - 1909 - 532 pages
...additional expense, which the slender finances of this little community would ill afford; besides, the quiet and retirement of the place was utterly destroyed....concourse, by privately killing the poor dolphin. And now, with what a flow of tenderness will you describe this affecting catastrophe!3 and how will...
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