The Port FolioJoseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1820 |
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... Paris , in which the belles lettres were united to the fine arts . It pleased these gentlemen , whose designations I am unacquainted with , since my friend Caluso had been dismissed from his office of secretary to the academy , to ...
... Paris , in which the belles lettres were united to the fine arts . It pleased these gentlemen , whose designations I am unacquainted with , since my friend Caluso had been dismissed from his office of secretary to the academy , to ...
Page 206
... Paris ; but the women of France and England may go to Moscow , in order to see their own fashions set off to advantage . Their drapery was disposed chiefly after the Grecian costume , and they wore their hair bound up round the head ...
... Paris ; but the women of France and England may go to Moscow , in order to see their own fashions set off to advantage . Their drapery was disposed chiefly after the Grecian costume , and they wore their hair bound up round the head ...
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... Paris in 1789 ; and it was that enlightened individual who first advised him to publish the " Genius of Christianity . " That work was al- ready nearly printed , when the author thought he perceived seve- ral defects in it , and he ...
... Paris in 1789 ; and it was that enlightened individual who first advised him to publish the " Genius of Christianity . " That work was al- ready nearly printed , when the author thought he perceived seve- ral defects in it , and he ...
Page 211
... Paris , soon compelled him to resign a situation so much at variance with his character and opinions . Accordingly , he once more returned to his native country , and had not been a year in Paris when Bona- parte , who had not yet given ...
... Paris , soon compelled him to resign a situation so much at variance with his character and opinions . Accordingly , he once more returned to his native country , and had not been a year in Paris when Bona- parte , who had not yet given ...
Page 213
... Paris to Jerusalem , " which is full of the most admirable sentiments , and at the same time occasionally speaks in high terms of military glory , to which the author had always shown himself to be remarkably attached . The police of ...
... Paris to Jerusalem , " which is full of the most admirable sentiments , and at the same time occasionally speaks in high terms of military glory , to which the author had always shown himself to be remarkably attached . The police of ...
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Page 104 - Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Page 451 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
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Page 103 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 108 - There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.