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... called to a plain , clean old man , with white locks , Pray , father Abraham , what think you of the times ? Will not those heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we be ever able to pay them ? What would you advise us to ...
... called to a plain , clean old man , with white locks , Pray , father Abraham , what think you of the times ? Will not those heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we be ever able to pay them ? What would you advise us to ...
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... called the conveniences : and yet only because they look pretty , how many want to have them ? -By these , and other extravagan cies , the genteel are reduced to poverty , and forced to borrow of those whom they formerly despised , but ...
... called the conveniences : and yet only because they look pretty , how many want to have them ? -By these , and other extravagan cies , the genteel are reduced to poverty , and forced to borrow of those whom they formerly despised , but ...
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... called it seeing life . If his head was broke by a chairman , or his pocket picked by a sharper , he com- forted himself by imitating the Hibernian dialect of the one , or the more fashionable cant of the other . ... ་་་ ་་་ Nothing ...
... called it seeing life . If his head was broke by a chairman , or his pocket picked by a sharper , he com- forted himself by imitating the Hibernian dialect of the one , or the more fashionable cant of the other . ... ་་་ ་་་ Nothing ...
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Preceptive, Moral, and Sentimental Pieces: On the Duties of the Young, Issue 10 Hugh Blair,Rollin,Thomas Percival No preview available - 2016 |
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