The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 |
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... expected ; a discovery which generally produces the dissipation of sudden affluence by prodigality . Ned drank , and whored , and hired fiddlers , and bought fine clothes ; he bred riots at Vauxhall , treated flatterers , and damned ...
... expected ; a discovery which generally produces the dissipation of sudden affluence by prodigality . Ned drank , and whored , and hired fiddlers , and bought fine clothes ; he bred riots at Vauxhall , treated flatterers , and damned ...
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... expected ? nothing that he possessed was diminished , nor was any possibility of advan- tage cut off ; with respect to these and every other reality he was in the same state , as if he had never heard of the vacancy , which he had some ...
... expected ? nothing that he possessed was diminished , nor was any possibility of advan- tage cut off ; with respect to these and every other reality he was in the same state , as if he had never heard of the vacancy , which he had some ...
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... expected ; his danger was not known time enough to alarm his fear ; the value of his acqui- sition was not increased ; nor had Providence inter- posed further than to exclude chance from the gov- ernment of the world . But Agenor did ...
... expected ; his danger was not known time enough to alarm his fear ; the value of his acqui- sition was not increased ; nor had Providence inter- posed further than to exclude chance from the gov- ernment of the world . But Agenor did ...
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having been long at sea looking for coasts which they expected never to find , they raised a general mutiny , and demanded to return . He found means to soothe them into a permission to continue the same course three days longer , and ...
having been long at sea looking for coasts which they expected never to find , they raised a general mutiny , and demanded to return . He found means to soothe them into a permission to continue the same course three days longer , and ...
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... expected , and curiosity is impatient for the action and the ca- tastrophe ; but this horrid fray is prevented , expec- tation is cut off , and curiosity disappointed , by an expedient which , though applauded by Addison and Pope , and ...
... expected , and curiosity is impatient for the action and the ca- tastrophe ; but this horrid fray is prevented , expec- tation is cut off , and curiosity disappointed , by an expedient which , though applauded by Addison and Pope , and ...
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Common terms and phrases
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