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... lives of a Nero , a Timur Bek , and a Ca- taline , can be deemed important or inftructive only to a diftinct clafs of readers , poffeffing ftrong difcri- minating minds and enlarged prin- ciples ; but all may perufe with the ardor of ...
... lives of a Nero , a Timur Bek , and a Ca- taline , can be deemed important or inftructive only to a diftinct clafs of readers , poffeffing ftrong difcri- minating minds and enlarged prin- ciples ; but all may perufe with the ardor of ...
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... lives , actually blew themfelvés up , and at length did the fame by their workshop . But thefe to an ardent and indefatigable mind were trifles ; trifles which might be furmounted by patient perfeverance : this per- feverance Dr. Watson ...
... lives , actually blew themfelvés up , and at length did the fame by their workshop . But thefe to an ardent and indefatigable mind were trifles ; trifles which might be furmounted by patient perfeverance : this per- feverance Dr. Watson ...
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... lives of faints . Another , about feventy - four years of age , prefented a striking contrast with the former . He had seen much of the world , his manners were prepoffeffing , and his conver- fation proved him to be a man who had lived ...
... lives of faints . Another , about feventy - four years of age , prefented a striking contrast with the former . He had seen much of the world , his manners were prepoffeffing , and his conver- fation proved him to be a man who had lived ...
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... live . It arifes from the feverity of their mode of living , the difficulty in procuring fuftenance , and the want of economy in hoard- ing it when obtained . But in civi- lized countries , where agriculture , arts , and commerce , not ...
... live . It arifes from the feverity of their mode of living , the difficulty in procuring fuftenance , and the want of economy in hoard- ing it when obtained . But in civi- lized countries , where agriculture , arts , and commerce , not ...
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... live without them ; and if , after having paid my fubfcription regularly , circum- ftances fhould be fuch as not to render it neceffary for me to take advantage of this afylum , I shall enjoy , nevertheless , the lively grati- fication ...
... live without them ; and if , after having paid my fubfcription regularly , circum- ftances fhould be fuch as not to render it neceffary for me to take advantage of this afylum , I shall enjoy , nevertheless , the lively grati- fication ...
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