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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected ... - Page 21
1797 - 1120 pages
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The Spectator, Volume 2

George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 450 pages
...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 Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 428 pages
...than it does. Several hours of the day hang upon our hands ; nay, we wish away., jxh.oj£.~.5£ears ; 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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Essays and Tales

Joseph Addison - 1901 - 208 pages
...as fast as our time runs, we should be very glad, in most part 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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Latin Prose Composition: Containing passages of graduated difficulty for ...

George Gilbert Ramsay - 1903 - 456 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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Essays of Joseph Addison, Volume 1

Joseph Addison - 1915 - 464 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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Dublin examination papers

Dublin city, univ - 1865 - 348 pages
...as fast as our time runs, we should be very glad in most parts of our lives that it ran much foster 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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Lengthening Life's Span: Being Essays Nos. 93 and 94 of the Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1926 - 40 pages
...fast as our Time runs, we should be very glad in most parts of our Lives that it ran much fasterthan 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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Selections from the Tatler, the Spectator and Their Successors

Walter James Graham - 1928 - 440 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 Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant ...

John Hamilton Moore - 1806 - 402 pages
...lives, that it ran much faster than it does. Several hours of the day hung 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 Christians magazine: or, The Sunday's entertainment [ed. by J. Lewis].

John Lewis (publisher) - 238 pages
...as faft as our time runs, we fliould be very glad in moft parts of our lives that it ran much fafter than it does. Several hours of the day hang . upon our hands ; nay we wifh away whole years : and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty...
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