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... Spectators and Guardians - whose meagre sentences and frigid Gallicisms are placed before our youthful emulation as the true sources for acquiring the mastery of our mother tongue - I was struck by one feature common to them all ...
... Spectators and Guardians - whose meagre sentences and frigid Gallicisms are placed before our youthful emulation as the true sources for acquiring the mastery of our mother tongue - I was struck by one feature common to them all ...
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not arise from a contempt of them , as might be imagined , but from an ignorance of what constituted them ; I have seen him apparently delighted with the luxurious inventions in furniture , equipages , plate , & c . common to all ...
not arise from a contempt of them , as might be imagined , but from an ignorance of what constituted them ; I have seen him apparently delighted with the luxurious inventions in furniture , equipages , plate , & c . common to all ...
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This spirited measure , which was the first attempt to expose the delusion under which the war had been commenced , laid the foundation of his popularity and repute . He was soon after elected into the common - council , where , for ...
This spirited measure , which was the first attempt to expose the delusion under which the war had been commenced , laid the foundation of his popularity and repute . He was soon after elected into the common - council , where , for ...
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