The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, المجلد 1John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... greater profusion of plants and flowers , they are at the same time perpetually exposed to pestilential heats , infested with noxious animals , torn by hurricanes , and rocked by earthquakes , unknown to the rougher regions of the north ...
... greater profusion of plants and flowers , they are at the same time perpetually exposed to pestilential heats , infested with noxious animals , torn by hurricanes , and rocked by earthquakes , unknown to the rougher regions of the north ...
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... greater , and in populous and extensive empires most powerful . As the one acts with power in proportion to its distance , so does the other ; for we constantly find , that a small benefit bestowed on men , as individuals , will ...
... greater , and in populous and extensive empires most powerful . As the one acts with power in proportion to its distance , so does the other ; for we constantly find , that a small benefit bestowed on men , as individuals , will ...
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... greater force may a similar expression be applied to him who carries to his grave the neglected and unprofitable seeds of faculties , which it depended on himself to have reared to maturity , and of which the fruits bring acces- sions ...
... greater force may a similar expression be applied to him who carries to his grave the neglected and unprofitable seeds of faculties , which it depended on himself to have reared to maturity , and of which the fruits bring acces- sions ...
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... greater caution in future at- tempts , and occasions improvements in the secret practice of vice . The best effect ever produced by such means is the acquisition of outward decency in the operations of vice ; the fear of pain or ...
... greater caution in future at- tempts , and occasions improvements in the secret practice of vice . The best effect ever produced by such means is the acquisition of outward decency in the operations of vice ; the fear of pain or ...
الصفحة 38
... greater part is applied to the aggrandizement of Poly- dore's establishment . And as this aggrandizement in- creases , in like manner increases his aseendency over others . We saw through the whole in a moment . It 38 SELECT PASSAGES.
... greater part is applied to the aggrandizement of Poly- dore's establishment . And as this aggrandizement in- creases , in like manner increases his aseendency over others . We saw through the whole in a moment . It 38 SELECT PASSAGES.
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