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... told the same thing to that pur- pose . " This expression from a secretary of the pre- sent time would be considered as merely ludi- crous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so ...
... told the same thing to that pur- pose . " This expression from a secretary of the pre- sent time would be considered as merely ludi- crous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so ...
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... told them any secrets , or assisted them by intelligence or any other act . If he only promised to be quiet , that they in whose hands he was , might free him from confinement , he did what no law of society prohibits . The man whose ...
... told them any secrets , or assisted them by intelligence or any other act . If he only promised to be quiet , that they in whose hands he was , might free him from confinement , he did what no law of society prohibits . The man whose ...
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... told Mr. Bois that you would . This is what they call monstri simile . I do hope to recover my late hurt so far within five or six days ( though it be uncertain yet whether I shall ever recover it , ) as to walk about again . And then ...
... told Mr. Bois that you would . This is what they call monstri simile . I do hope to recover my late hurt so far within five or six days ( though it be uncertain yet whether I shall ever recover it , ) as to walk about again . And then ...
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... told of Theron's bounty , with a hint that he had enemies , which Cowley thus enlarges in rhyming prose : But in this thankless world the giver Is envied even by the receiver ; Tis now the cheap and frugal fashion Rather to hide then ...
... told of Theron's bounty , with a hint that he had enemies , which Cowley thus enlarges in rhyming prose : But in this thankless world the giver Is envied even by the receiver ; Tis now the cheap and frugal fashion Rather to hide then ...
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... told that Saul was troubled with an evil spirit ; from this , Cowley takes an oportu- nity of describing hell , and telling the history of Lucifer , who was , he says , Once general of a gilded host of sprites , Like Hesper leading ...
... told that Saul was troubled with an evil spirit ; from this , Cowley takes an oportu- nity of describing hell , and telling the history of Lucifer , who was , he says , Once general of a gilded host of sprites , Like Hesper leading ...
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