Table-talk; Or, Selections from the Ana: Containing Extracts from the Different Collections of Ana, French, English, Italian, and German. With Bibliographical Notices |
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... wives , the ambassa- dor replied , " Madame , if we could find at Siam wives as handsome as yourself , we should have but one ; but as that cannot be , we must console ourselves by changing them occasionally . " LXIX . THE CANON OF ...
... wives , the ambassa- dor replied , " Madame , if we could find at Siam wives as handsome as yourself , we should have but one ; but as that cannot be , we must console ourselves by changing them occasionally . " LXIX . THE CANON OF ...
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... wife to burn his body during one of these mental excursions , his soul finding itself on its return deprived of its usual re- treat , retired for ever . Suetonius tells us , that after the violent death of Caligula , his body had been ...
... wife to burn his body during one of these mental excursions , his soul finding itself on its return deprived of its usual re- treat , retired for ever . Suetonius tells us , that after the violent death of Caligula , his body had been ...
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... wife so severely , that his neighbours , attracted by her cries , had frequent- ly been obliged to interfere for her assistance . The husband , tired of her society , determined to get rid of her at once . He pretended to be reconciled ...
... wife so severely , that his neighbours , attracted by her cries , had frequent- ly been obliged to interfere for her assistance . The husband , tired of her society , determined to get rid of her at once . He pretended to be reconciled ...
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... wife so severely , that his neighbours , attracted by her cries , had frequent- ly been obliged to interfere for her assistance . The husband , tired of her society , determined to get rid of her at once . He pretended to be reconciled ...
... wife so severely , that his neighbours , attracted by her cries , had frequent- ly been obliged to interfere for her assistance . The husband , tired of her society , determined to get rid of her at once . He pretended to be reconciled ...
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... wife so severely , that his neighbours , attracted by her cries , had frequent- ly been obliged to interfere for her assistance . The husband , tired of her society , determined to get rid of her at once . He pretended to be reconciled ...
... wife so severely , that his neighbours , attracted by her cries , had frequent- ly been obliged to interfere for her assistance . The husband , tired of her society , determined to get rid of her at once . He pretended to be reconciled ...
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