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Page 21
... natural cheerfulness and vivacity to the very last . To within a month of his death , which happened on the 16th of September , 1775 , at the age of ninety - one , he constantly rode out on horseback , two hours before dinner ; and ...
... natural cheerfulness and vivacity to the very last . To within a month of his death , which happened on the 16th of September , 1775 , at the age of ninety - one , he constantly rode out on horseback , two hours before dinner ; and ...
Page 25
... nature , and wish- ing to satisfy every body ; all his speeches are obliging . I saw him again yesterday , and was surprised to find the levee - room had lost so entirely the air of the lion's den . This sovereign don't stand in one ...
... nature , and wish- ing to satisfy every body ; all his speeches are obliging . I saw him again yesterday , and was surprised to find the levee - room had lost so entirely the air of the lion's den . This sovereign don't stand in one ...
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... nature ; but however unbecoming it may be in me , I cannot resist the desire of interceding for this unhappy people . " It was but a very few years ago that this territory wore the most pleasing appearance . The country was cultivated ...
... nature ; but however unbecoming it may be in me , I cannot resist the desire of interceding for this unhappy people . " It was but a very few years ago that this territory wore the most pleasing appearance . The country was cultivated ...
Page 32
... natural for the two na- tions to have a regard for each other , since the Angli , for whom the English are decended , came originally from this part of Germany . This proposition raised the attention of the company , and the doctor ...
... natural for the two na- tions to have a regard for each other , since the Angli , for whom the English are decended , came originally from this part of Germany . This proposition raised the attention of the company , and the doctor ...
Page 35
... natural foliage and festoons , and over it were two terrestrial globes , in geographical divisions : in the first , Europe , Asia , and Africa ; and in the other , America , Great Britain , and Ireland , were encircled with a wreath of ...
... natural foliage and festoons , and over it were two terrestrial globes , in geographical divisions : in the first , Europe , Asia , and Africa ; and in the other , America , Great Britain , and Ireland , were encircled with a wreath of ...
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