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... passed sometime with great satisfaction in roving through the country , and view- ing the seats , gardens , and plantations , which are scattered over it . My pleasure would indeed have been greater had I been sometimes allowed to wan ...
... passed sometime with great satisfaction in roving through the country , and view- ing the seats , gardens , and plantations , which are scattered over it . My pleasure would indeed have been greater had I been sometimes allowed to wan ...
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... passed from one sentiment to another without expressing the intermediate ideas , and roved at large over the ideal world with such lightness and agility that their footsteps are scarcely to be traced . From this accidental peculiarity ...
... passed from one sentiment to another without expressing the intermediate ideas , and roved at large over the ideal world with such lightness and agility that their footsteps are scarcely to be traced . From this accidental peculiarity ...
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... passed the even- ing not only with tranquillity , but triumph , though none but himself was conscious of the victory . The remembrance of this clemency cheered the beginning of the seventh day , and nothing happened to disturb the ...
... passed the even- ing not only with tranquillity , but triumph , though none but himself was conscious of the victory . The remembrance of this clemency cheered the beginning of the seventh day , and nothing happened to disturb the ...
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the Meanness of regulating our Conduct by the Opinions of | 3 |
the Meanness of regulating our Conduct by the Opinions of | 185 |
Anningait and Ajut a Greenland History | 186 |
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