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Pagina 19
... recollect them ; for faint as they may already be , they will grow every day fainter . " Perhaps I do not flatter myself unreasonably when I imagine that you may wish to know some- thing of me . I can gratify your benevolence with no ...
... recollect them ; for faint as they may already be , they will grow every day fainter . " Perhaps I do not flatter myself unreasonably when I imagine that you may wish to know some- thing of me . I can gratify your benevolence with no ...
Pagina 165
... recollect but one passage quoted by Thucydides from Homer , which is not to be found in our copies of Homer's works ; I am for the antiquity of Homer , and think that a Grecian colony , by being nearer Persia , might be more refined ...
... recollect but one passage quoted by Thucydides from Homer , which is not to be found in our copies of Homer's works ; I am for the antiquity of Homer , and think that a Grecian colony , by being nearer Persia , might be more refined ...
Pagina 263
... recollect , but a beautiful Miss Graham , 1 a relation of his Lord- ship's , who asked Dr. Johnson to hob or nob with her . He was flattered by such pleasing atten- tion , and politely told her , he never drank wine ; but if she would ...
... recollect , but a beautiful Miss Graham , 1 a relation of his Lord- ship's , who asked Dr. Johnson to hob or nob with her . He was flattered by such pleasing atten- tion , and politely told her , he never drank wine ; but if she would ...
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