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few people are aware that there are three kinds of oak , indigenous to the soil , and that the fame of Irish oak timber depends altogether on that of the best quality being the most common , the first and best , Quercus Robur , Mart Flo ...
few people are aware that there are three kinds of oak , indigenous to the soil , and that the fame of Irish oak timber depends altogether on that of the best quality being the most common , the first and best , Quercus Robur , Mart Flo ...
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... and as certainly not mended : let us therefore confine our attention to the probable and possible , and endeavour to produce some beneficial effects on the minds of those , whom we can influence , through the mean of common sense .
... and as certainly not mended : let us therefore confine our attention to the probable and possible , and endeavour to produce some beneficial effects on the minds of those , whom we can influence , through the mean of common sense .
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And can a man of common sense expect those impor tant , those sacred duties , to be well discharged by the fluttering empty thing forced into womanhood in the hot - house of a boarding - school ? and is it consistent with good sense ...
And can a man of common sense expect those impor tant , those sacred duties , to be well discharged by the fluttering empty thing forced into womanhood in the hot - house of a boarding - school ? and is it consistent with good sense ...
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... would not have been laid aside for it universally , in all nations , as if by common consent . The invention of bills of exchange , which is generally supposed have originated in Italy , is not of any remote antiquity : Bank - notes ...
... would not have been laid aside for it universally , in all nations , as if by common consent . The invention of bills of exchange , which is generally supposed have originated in Italy , is not of any remote antiquity : Bank - notes ...
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... but the first could not be divided into less than whole teeth , without lessening its value ; and there are so many different sorts of indigo , that it would be difficult to have them known generally enough for common use .
... but the first could not be divided into less than whole teeth , without lessening its value ; and there are so many different sorts of indigo , that it would be difficult to have them known generally enough for common use .
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Page 208 - When all thy mercies, O my God ! My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise. Promiscuous.) PUNCTUATION. 11J O how shall words, with equal warmth, The gratitude declare, That glows within my ravish'd heart ? But thou canst read it there. Thy Providence my life sustain'd, And all my wants redress'd, When in the silent womb I lay, And hung upon the breast.
Page 289 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
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Page 74 - ... temple of science, to be re-distributed in due time through every part of the community, sources of jealousy and prejudice would be diminished, the features of national character would be multiplied, and greater extent given to social harmony. But above all, a...
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