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" But in every thing else, I suppose, they were our counterparts exactly ; and time, that has sewed up the slashed sleeve, and reduced the large trunk hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of the... "
The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 57
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Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern

Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 452 pages
...and aims are just what they ever were. They wear perhaps a handsomer disguise 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. FROM A LETTER TO REV. JOHN NEWTON OLNEY, NOVEMBER 3OTH, 1783. My dear...
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Literature: A Fifth Reader

Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - 1901 - 526 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....; but in every other respect, a modern is only an ancient in a different dress. Yours, WILLIAM COWPER. To THE REV. WILLIAM UNWIN JUNE 12, 1782. MY DEAR...
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The Correspondence of William Cowper: Arranged in Chronological Order, Volume 1

William Cowper, Thomas Wright - 1904 - 556 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....exterior; but- in every other respect a modern is only an ancient in a different dress. wc TO JOSEPH HILL Aug. W, 1780. My DEAR SIR,—I greet you at your castle...
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The Hawthorne Readers, Book 5

Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 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....; but in every other respect, a modern is only an ancient in a different dress. Yours, WILLIAM COWPEK. To THE REV. WILLIAM UNWIN JUKE l->, 1782. MY DEAR...
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Letters of William Cowper, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1912 - 556 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....exterior ; but in every other respect a modern is only an ancient in a different dress. ,y --, XLIII To Joseph Hill, Esq. Aug. 10, 1780. MY DEAR SIR, I greet...
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Literature and Life, Book 3

Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1923 - 648 pages
...nature just where it found it. The inside of the man at least has undergone no change. MEN ANO MANNERS His passions, appetites, and aims, are just what they...exterior; but in every other respect a modern is only an ancient in a different dress. WC TO MADEMOISELLE BOLLVILLER* Washington Irving Seville, May 28, 1828...
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Harper's Anthology: Prose

Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 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....exterior; but in every other respect a modern is only an ancient in a different dress. WC [WILLIAM COWPER] 43 TO CLOTWORTHY ROWLEY, ESQ. September 2, 1762 DEAR...
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Harper's Anthology for College Courses in Composition and Literature: Of ...

Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 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....exterior; but in every other respect a modern is only an ancient in a different dress. WC [WILLIAM COWPER] 43 TO CLOTWORTHY ROWLEY, ESQ. Sept 'ember 2, i"j6z...
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator, Volume 2

1820 - 684 pages
...His passions, appetites, and aims, arc just what i lie y ever were. They wear perhaps a band? Bonier disguise than they did in days of yore ; for philosophy and literature will have their «Sect upon the exterior, but in every other respect a modern is only an aucient ina different dress....
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