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... virtues . At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in transacting things of real im- portance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his let ...
... virtues . At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in transacting things of real im- portance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his let ...
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... virtue , his retreat was cowardice . these bonds till the general deliverance ; " it is therefore to be supposed , that he did not go to France , and act again for the King , without the consent of his bondsman ; that he did not show ...
... virtue , his retreat was cowardice . these bonds till the general deliverance ; " it is therefore to be supposed , that he did not go to France , and act again for the King , without the consent of his bondsman ; that he did not show ...
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... virtue made it innocent to him , ness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were that misses his end will never be as much the reasons that made him to follow the violent pleased as he that ...
... virtue made it innocent to him , ness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were that misses his end will never be as much the reasons that made him to follow the violent pleased as he that ...
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... virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . yo Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in.them too scholastic , they ...
... virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . yo Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in.them too scholastic , they ...
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... virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can dis- play . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the qualities of his companion ; but , when he wishes to ...
... virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can dis- play . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the qualities of his companion ; but , when he wishes to ...
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