The Beauties of Washington Irving, Esq. ...J. Bumpus, 1825 - 316 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 41
... honour bound to furnish us with a better . As an impartial historian , I consider it my duty to notice their several theories by which mankind have been so exceedingly edified and instructed . Thus it was the opinion of certain ancient ...
... honour bound to furnish us with a better . As an impartial historian , I consider it my duty to notice their several theories by which mankind have been so exceedingly edified and instructed . Thus it was the opinion of certain ancient ...
Σελίδα 71
... honour them with a little contempt . The Giblets made a prodigious splash in their own opinion ; but nobody extolled them except the tailors , and the milliners , who had been employed in ma- nufacturing their paraphernalia . The ...
... honour them with a little contempt . The Giblets made a prodigious splash in their own opinion ; but nobody extolled them except the tailors , and the milliners , who had been employed in ma- nufacturing their paraphernalia . The ...
Σελίδα 82
... honour rather than the infamy of our species . If we turn over the pages of these chronicles that man has written of himself , what are the characters dignified by the appellation of great , and held up to the admiration of posterity ...
... honour rather than the infamy of our species . If we turn over the pages of these chronicles that man has written of himself , what are the characters dignified by the appellation of great , and held up to the admiration of posterity ...
Σελίδα 87
... honour conferred upon him , and his humiliating incapacity to discharge the important duties of his new station ; in short , he ex- pressed so contemptible an opinion of himself , that many simple country members present , ignorant that ...
... honour conferred upon him , and his humiliating incapacity to discharge the important duties of his new station ; in short , he ex- pressed so contemptible an opinion of himself , that many simple country members present , ignorant that ...
Σελίδα 88
... honoured wife of his bo- som ; who was one of that peculiar kind of females , sent upon earth a little before the flood , as a punishment for the sins of mankind , and commonly known by the appel- lation of knowing women . In fact , my ...
... honoured wife of his bo- som ; who was one of that peculiar kind of females , sent upon earth a little before the flood , as a punishment for the sins of mankind , and commonly known by the appel- lation of knowing women . In fact , my ...
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