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... pleasure , as to find his works respectfully quoted by others . Judge , then , how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you . I stopped my horse , lately , where a great number of people were collected ...
... pleasure , as to find his works respectfully quoted by others . Judge , then , how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you . I stopped my horse , lately , where a great number of people were collected ...
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... pleasures , and they will follow you . The diligent spinner has a large shift ; and now I have a sheep and a cow , ev- ery body bids me good morrow . " II . But with our industry we must likewise be steady , set- tled , and careful ...
... pleasures , and they will follow you . The diligent spinner has a large shift ; and now I have a sheep and a cow , ev- ery body bids me good morrow . " II . But with our industry we must likewise be steady , set- tled , and careful ...
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... pleasure , to deprive you of your liberty , by confining you in gaol for life , or by selling you for a servant , if you should not be able to pay him . When you have got your bargain , you may , perhaps , think little of payment ; but ...
... pleasure , to deprive you of your liberty , by confining you in gaol for life , or by selling you for a servant , if you should not be able to pay him . When you have got your bargain , you may , perhaps , think little of payment ; but ...
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... pleasure , would , at once induce him , with his own hand , to terminate the scene of misery : but , happily , the contempt of death forsakes him at a time when it could only be prejudicial ; and life acquires an imag inary value , in ...
... pleasure , would , at once induce him , with his own hand , to terminate the scene of misery : but , happily , the contempt of death forsakes him at a time when it could only be prejudicial ; and life acquires an imag inary value , in ...
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... pleasure the best actor gives , can no way com- pare to that I have received from a country wag , who imitated a quaker's sermon . The music of the finest singer is dissonance , to what I felt when our old dai- ry - maid sung me into ...
... pleasure the best actor gives , can no way com- pare to that I have received from a country wag , who imitated a quaker's sermon . The music of the finest singer is dissonance , to what I felt when our old dai- ry - maid sung me into ...
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