The Batchelor: Or Speculations of Jeoffry Wagstaffe, Esq. Vol. III.James Hoey, junior, 1773 - 359 páginas |
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... lives of a few IRISH Cows , ( that deferve to fuffer for their gluttony ) when I fincerely think , without any compliment , that preferving half a do- zen patriotic aldermen , is of more confequence to the community . At Your lordship ...
... lives of a few IRISH Cows , ( that deferve to fuffer for their gluttony ) when I fincerely think , without any compliment , that preferving half a do- zen patriotic aldermen , is of more confequence to the community . At Your lordship ...
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... lives of many illuftrious citizens this feafon . However your lordship may be prejudiced against the IRISH , I affure you there are many ingenious men in this country , who gain a comfortable lively- hood by cutting open the skins of ...
... lives of many illuftrious citizens this feafon . However your lordship may be prejudiced against the IRISH , I affure you there are many ingenious men in this country , who gain a comfortable lively- hood by cutting open the skins of ...
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... the Kings of Ifrael to her Majefty , who did not fuffer a wizard to live . Yet the bifhop was a man of parts and * Middleton on Miracles . learning : learning : claffical knowledge was never more culti- vated , 34 The BATCHELOR .
... the Kings of Ifrael to her Majefty , who did not fuffer a wizard to live . Yet the bifhop was a man of parts and * Middleton on Miracles . learning : learning : claffical knowledge was never more culti- vated , 34 The BATCHELOR .
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... lives , to • commence from the firft of May , 1767 . " Shortly afterwards , B who refides in England , " writes a letter to A , to inform him , that he had " fent over a leafe executed by him for three lives " of faid farm , at the ...
... lives , to • commence from the firft of May , 1767 . " Shortly afterwards , B who refides in England , " writes a letter to A , to inform him , that he had " fent over a leafe executed by him for three lives " of faid farm , at the ...
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... lives thé ob- ject of ridicule , and is led every day to laugh at himself ; he joins in the jeft without fufpecting it is at his own expence - yet is he happy by his dullness , which , " covers him all over ( as Sancho fays ) like a ...
... lives thé ob- ject of ridicule , and is led every day to laugh at himself ; he joins in the jeft without fufpecting it is at his own expence - yet is he happy by his dullness , which , " covers him all over ( as Sancho fays ) like a ...
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