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Pagina 4
Gay and happily passed our time away at the university , for two years , during which I did not once overstep my allowance : and , so far from contracting debts , I found myself , at the end of that time , in possession of a small sum ...
Gay and happily passed our time away at the university , for two years , during which I did not once overstep my allowance : and , so far from contracting debts , I found myself , at the end of that time , in possession of a small sum ...
Pagina 6
To hold conversation with a man possessed of an absent mind were vain ; you might as well correspond with a shadow , and answer the echoes of thy ow a voice : for instance , should you , in the course of your digression , on a sudden ...
To hold conversation with a man possessed of an absent mind were vain ; you might as well correspond with a shadow , and answer the echoes of thy ow a voice : for instance , should you , in the course of your digression , on a sudden ...
Pagina 11
An adventurer of this description is brought forward , who endeavours to deceive a person of condition , and who is so far deceived by the impostor as to believe that , at length , he is actually in possession of the philosopher's stone ...
An adventurer of this description is brought forward , who endeavours to deceive a person of condition , and who is so far deceived by the impostor as to believe that , at length , he is actually in possession of the philosopher's stone ...
Pagina 14
Cresus . coming into possession of a conthe age of twenty - one , Cresus , siderable estate , resolved to fix his happiness in giving himself up to pleasures of every kind , which , although permitted in a certain degree , become ...
Cresus . coming into possession of a conthe age of twenty - one , Cresus , siderable estate , resolved to fix his happiness in giving himself up to pleasures of every kind , which , although permitted in a certain degree , become ...
Pagina 16
... as great a taste beloved by persons whose society for a bravura , or the distortions of the confers an honour on him , and who Italian mountebanks , as he formerly are acquainted with the vice to which possessed for architecture .
... as great a taste beloved by persons whose society for a bravura , or the distortions of the confers an honour on him , and who Italian mountebanks , as he formerly are acquainted with the vice to which possessed for architecture .
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