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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected ... - Page 21
1797 - 1120 pages
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Addison

Joseph Addison - 1875 - 566 pages
...ran much faster than it does. Sever-a/ hours of th^e day hang upon our hands, nay we wish away whoJe years • and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild 10 and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements...
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Selections from Addison's Papers in the Spectator: Essay on "Addison,"

Joseph Addison - 1879 - 250 pages
...as fast as our time runs, we should be very glad in most parts of our lives that it ran much faster than it does. Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty...
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A Thousand Thoughts from Various Authors

Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pages
...TIME. FAST as our time runs, we should be very glad in most parts of our lives that it ran much faster than it does. Several hours of the day hang upon our hands : nay, we wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

1881 - 578 pages
...as fast as our time runs, we should be very glad in most parts of our lives that it ran much faster But this is not to my purpose. My father lived ten miles from Shre wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty...
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Readings from the Spectator. With notes

Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 pages
...as fast as our time runs, we should be very glad in most parts of our lives that it ran much faster than it does. Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty...
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Prose extracts [&c.].

John Edwin Nixon - 1885 - 256 pages
...to arrive at Honours, then to retire. Several Hours of the ю Day hang upon, our Hands, nay we wish away whole Years; and travel through Time as through a Country filled with many wild and empty Wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little Settlements or imaginary...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...as fast as our time runs, we should be very glad in most parte of our lives that it ran much faster I am not fond of thus drubbing our youths into treachery, and am mu w\sh away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty...
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The Spectator: A Digest-index

William Wheeler - 1892 - 200 pages
...much faster than it does. Several Hours of the Day hang upon our Hands, nay we wish away whole'Years : and travel through Time as through a Country filled with many wild and empty Wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little Settlements or imaginary...
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Selections from the Spectator of Addison and Steele

A. Meserole - 1896 - 450 pages
...as fast as our time runs, we should be very glad in most parts of our lives that it ran much faster than it does. Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay we wish away whole years ; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty...
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The Spectator, Volume 2

George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 356 pages
...as fast as our Time runs, we should be very glad in most parts of our Lives that it ran much faster than it does* Several Hours of the Day hang upon our Hands, nay we wish away whole Years; and travel through Time as through a Country filled with many wild and empty...
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