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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 57
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The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 15-19

1861 - 662 pages
...hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of man at least has undergone no change. His passions,...philosophy and literature will have their effect upon the interior ; bat, in every other respect, a modern is only an ancient in a different dress. WC Jfacts,...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...the large trunk hose to a neat pair of silk-stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of the man, at least, has undergone no...exterior; but in every other respect a modern is only an ancient in a different dress. AN EPISTLE IS RHYME. To the REV. JOBS NEWTOH.' My very dear friend, July...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...the laige trunk hose to a neat pair of silk-stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of the man, at least, has undergone no...exterior; but in every other respect a modern is only an ancient in a different dress. AN KPISTLE IN RHYME. To the RET. JOHS NEWTOK.' My very dear friend, J,,ty...
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Chambers's readings in English prose ... 1558 to 1860

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of man at least has undergone no change. His passions,...; but, in every other respect, a modern is only an ancient in a different dress. LETTER TO LADY HESKETH. OLNEY, February 9, 1786. I have been impatient...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...large trunk hose * to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of the man, at least, has undergone no...his passions, appetites, and aims are just what they were. They wear, perhaps a handsomer disguise than they did in the days of yore ; for philosophy and...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1873 - 798 pages
...found it. The inside of the man, at least, has undergone no change. His passions, appetites, •rid aims are just what they ever were. They wear perhaps a handsomer disguise than they did in days nt M ii • ; for philosophy and literature will have their effect upon the exterior ; but in every...
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Literary curiosities and eccentricities, in prose and verse, ed. by W.A ...

Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...and aims, are just what they ever were. They wear, perhaps, a handsomer guise than they did in the days of yore, for philosophy and literature will have...exterior, but in every other respect, a modern is only an ancient in a different dress. — Camper's Letters. "GIVE ME NEITHER POVERTY NOR RICHES." ENOUGH for...
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Wine and walnuts

Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of the man has undergone no change. His passions, appetites,...what they ever were. They wear, perhaps, a handsomer guise than they did in the days of yore, for philosophy and literature will have their effect upon...
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Letters of William Cowper, a selection, with a sketch of his life and biogr ...

William Cowper - 1877 - 462 pages
...trunk hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it The inside of man at least has undergone no change. His passions,...the exterior ; but, in every other respect, a modern ia only an ancient in a different dress. WC LVH. To the EEV. JOHN NEWTON. ESCAPE OF ONE OF HIS HARES....
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Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern

Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 450 pages
...the large trunk-hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of the man at least has undergone no change....wear perhaps a handsomer disguise than they did in the days of yore, for philosophy and literature will have their effect upon the exterior; but in every...
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