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Pagina 137
... lived afterwards in happiness and ease , and left it to be engraved on his tomb , " That no circum- stances are so desperate , which Providence may not relieve . " A LETTER FROM A TRAVELLER [ The sequel of this correspondence to be ...
... lived afterwards in happiness and ease , and left it to be engraved on his tomb , " That no circum- stances are so desperate , which Providence may not relieve . " A LETTER FROM A TRAVELLER [ The sequel of this correspondence to be ...
Pagina 206
Oliver Goldsmith. The insect I am now describing lived three years ; every year it changed its skin , and got a new set of legs . I have sometimes plucked off a leg , which grew again in two or three days . At first it dreaded my ...
Oliver Goldsmith. The insect I am now describing lived three years ; every year it changed its skin , and got a new set of legs . I have sometimes plucked off a leg , which grew again in two or three days . At first it dreaded my ...
Pagina 307
... lived in great distress . When he died ( which he did in an obscure house near the Minories ) , he had about him the copy of a tragedy , which it seems he had sold for a trifle to Bentley the bookseller . I have seen an advertisement at ...
... lived in great distress . When he died ( which he did in an obscure house near the Minories ) , he had about him the copy of a tragedy , which it seems he had sold for a trifle to Bentley the bookseller . I have seen an advertisement at ...
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Of the present state of polite learning in Italy | 27 |
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