Letters, Sentences, and MaximsPutnam, 1888 - 327 σελίδες |
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... hands of every young gentleman . ” — DR . JOHNSON , May , 1776 . " Viewed as compositions , they appear almost un- rivalled for a serious epistolary style ; clear , elegant , and terse , never straining at effect , and yet never hurried ...
... hands of every young gentleman . ” — DR . JOHNSON , May , 1776 . " Viewed as compositions , they appear almost un- rivalled for a serious epistolary style ; clear , elegant , and terse , never straining at effect , and yet never hurried ...
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... hands to say to a beautiful woman near him : " Mad- ame , don't you find it very warm to - day ? " But Lord Chesterfield told his son that to en- courage him , and to show what it is necessary to pass through . He makes himself an ...
... hands to say to a beautiful woman near him : " Mad- ame , don't you find it very warm to - day ? " But Lord Chesterfield told his son that to en- courage him , and to show what it is necessary to pass through . He makes himself an ...
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... hands , without troubling himself as to the use they would put them to . Lord Chesterfield himself , in the eyes of the Puritans of his country , has been accused , I should state here , of a breach of morality in the letters addressed ...
... hands , without troubling himself as to the use they would put them to . Lord Chesterfield himself , in the eyes of the Puritans of his country , has been accused , I should state here , of a breach of morality in the letters addressed ...
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... hand , it is certain , that a free people cannot be too careful or jealous of their liberty ; and it is cer- tain , too , that the love and applause of man- kind will always attend a man of eminent and distinguished virtue ; and ...
... hand , it is certain , that a free people cannot be too careful or jealous of their liberty ; and it is cer- tain , too , that the love and applause of man- kind will always attend a man of eminent and distinguished virtue ; and ...
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... hands are trouble- some to him when he has not something in them , and he does not know where to put them ; but they are in perpetual motion be- tween his bosom and his breeches ; he does not wear his clothes , and , in short , does ...
... hands are trouble- some to him when he has not something in them , and he does not know where to put them ; but they are in perpetual motion be- tween his bosom and his breeches ; he does not wear his clothes , and , in short , does ...
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