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Hand-book of Punctuation: With Instructions for Capitalization, Letter ... - Page 11
by William Johnson Cocker - 1878 - 127 pages
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The London Magazine, Volume 4

1821 - 724 pages
...she happily missed all that train of female garniture, which passeth by the name of accomplishments. She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into...browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls, they should be brought up exactly in this fashion. I know not whether their chance...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 2

1835 - 842 pages
...keenly relished their fantasies, and smiled at their garnîmes. In earlylift; she had been tumbled into a spacious closet of good old English reading,...browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls they ¿hould be brought up in this fashion. I know not whether their chance in wedlock...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

1835 - 432 pages
...she happily missed all that train of female garniture, which passeth by the name of accomplishments. She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into...browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls, they should be brought up exactly in this fashion. I know not whether their chance...
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Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pages
...she happily missed all that train of female garniture, which passeth by the name of accomplishments. She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into...browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls, they should be brought up exactly in this fashion. I know not whether their chance...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

1835 - 430 pages
...she happily missed all that train of female garniture, which passeth by the name of accomplishments. She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into...good old English reading, without much selection or prohihition, and browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls, they should...
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The Prose Works of Charles Lamb ...: Elia. First series

Charles Lamb - 1836 - 362 pages
...she happily missed all that train of female garniture, which passeth by the name of accomplishments. She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into...browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls, they should be brought up exactly in this fashion. I know not whether their chance...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 2

1836 - 802 pages
...fantasies, and smiled at their gauderios. In early lifo she had been tumbled into a spacious closet of goad old English reading, without much selection or prohibition...browsed at w-ill upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls they should be brought up in this fashion. I know not whether their chance in wedlock...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch ...

Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...she happily missed all that train of female garniture, which passeth by the name of accomplishments. She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into...browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls, they should be brought up exactly in this fashion. I know not whether their chance...
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The essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...she happily missed all that train of female garniture, which passeth by the name of accomplishments. She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into...browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls, they should be brought up exactly in this fashion. I know not whether their chance...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 208

1896 - 854 pages
...Charles Lamb on my side in my antipathy to a rigidly methodical system. Bridget Elia, he tells us, was tumbled early, by accident or design, into a spacious...browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls [he goes on] they should be brought up exactly in this fashion. I know not whether...
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