English Prose of the Eighteenth CenturyCecil Albert Moore |
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Page 176
... took nine of these sticks , fix- ing them firmly in the ground in a quadrangular figure two foot and a half square . I took four other sticks , and tied them parallel at each corner about two foot from the ground ; then I fastened my ...
... took nine of these sticks , fix- ing them firmly in the ground in a quadrangular figure two foot and a half square . I took four other sticks , and tied them parallel at each corner about two foot from the ground ; then I fastened my ...
Page 242
... took a walk in a private garden . The bride- groom's man knew his master would leave the place on a sudden after the wedding , and seeing him draw his pis- tols the night before , took this oppor- tunity to go into his chamber and ...
... took a walk in a private garden . The bride- groom's man knew his master would leave the place on a sudden after the wedding , and seeing him draw his pis- tols the night before , took this oppor- tunity to go into his chamber and ...
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... took the most unfre- quented roads possible . One evening , as was entering a village , I perceived a man , whom I afterwards found to be the curate of the parish , thrown from his horse in a miry road and almost smoth- ered in the mud ...
... took the most unfre- quented roads possible . One evening , as was entering a village , I perceived a man , whom I afterwards found to be the curate of the parish , thrown from his horse in a miry road and almost smoth- ered in the mud ...
Contents
PREFACE | 4 |
THE POOR MANS PLEA | 14 |
THE SHORTEST WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS | 23 |
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