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... never sees his country house but he says within himself " O might I but rest in this spot and never more go three miles from home I should be happy " --but he is now entangled in so extensive a plan , that he says he is doubtful that he ...
... never sees his country house but he says within himself " O might I but rest in this spot and never more go three miles from home I should be happy " --but he is now entangled in so extensive a plan , that he says he is doubtful that he ...
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... Never when awake , ' he tells Little , and perhaps not always when asleep - have my Scotch Surveys been absent . The dis- cussions respecting Scotland have been postponed , and are now in waiting for them . - my plans are completed ...
... Never when awake , ' he tells Little , and perhaps not always when asleep - have my Scotch Surveys been absent . The dis- cussions respecting Scotland have been postponed , and are now in waiting for them . - my plans are completed ...
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... Never , ' he wrote after the Reform Act , ' Never before was poor England so befooled , be - pressed , be - whigged , and be - devilled . ' But it was not all sound and fury . Fullest of matter without verbosity , ' was Lamb's ...
... Never , ' he wrote after the Reform Act , ' Never before was poor England so befooled , be - pressed , be - whigged , and be - devilled . ' But it was not all sound and fury . Fullest of matter without verbosity , ' was Lamb's ...
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The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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