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... excellent papers . Among many other surprising endowments , the Signior had that of whistling by the help of a knife to so great a per- fection , that he became as famous for that , as most of the Italian Signiors have been for singing ...
... excellent papers . Among many other surprising endowments , the Signior had that of whistling by the help of a knife to so great a per- fection , that he became as famous for that , as most of the Italian Signiors have been for singing ...
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... excellent persons whom I have known , but those of whom I have heard and read , and of whom I myself have written ; nor would I be detained from so pleasing a jour- ney . O happy day , when I shall escape from this crowd , this heap of ...
... excellent persons whom I have known , but those of whom I have heard and read , and of whom I myself have written ; nor would I be detained from so pleasing a jour- ney . O happy day , when I shall escape from this crowd , this heap of ...
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... excellent man was summoned to ano- ther world . He expired on Sunday evening , January 14th , 1753 , in the 79th year of his age , and while Mrs. Berkeley was reading to him . the fifteenth chapter of St. Paul's first epistle to the ...
... excellent man was summoned to ano- ther world . He expired on Sunday evening , January 14th , 1753 , in the 79th year of his age , and while Mrs. Berkeley was reading to him . the fifteenth chapter of St. Paul's first epistle to the ...
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... valuable notes , and an excellent preface of an Anglo - Saxon ho- mily , anciently used in the English - Saxon church , and containing a curious account of the conver- sion of BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCHES . 175.
... valuable notes , and an excellent preface of an Anglo - Saxon ho- mily , anciently used in the English - Saxon church , and containing a curious account of the conver- sion of BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCHES . 175.
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... excellent good natured young woman , and I be- lieve the poor lad is much afflicted : they ap- peared to live perfectly well together . " Parnell had always been subject to much ine quality of spirits ; he was either greatly elevated or ...
... excellent good natured young woman , and I be- lieve the poor lad is much afflicted : they ap- peared to live perfectly well together . " Parnell had always been subject to much ine quality of spirits ; he was either greatly elevated or ...
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