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New England Sheriff: Or, Digest of the Duties of Civil Officers; Being a ...
by Isaac Goodwin - 1830 - 312 pages
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Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language

Richard Grant White - English language - 1870 - 454 pages
...avocations will seduce attention, and casual ellipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment...which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow." Here will is used in three clauses, and shall in one, to express the same relation of time in the third...
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Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language

Richard Grant White - English language - 1870 - 456 pages
...avocations will seduce attention, and casual ellipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment...which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow." Here will is used in three clauses, and shall in one, to express the same relation of time in the third...
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The Hedaya, Or Guide: A Commentary on the Mussulman Laws, Volume 217

ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr Marghīnānī - Hanafites - 1870 - 874 pages
...experienced the truth of an observation made by our immortal Lexicographer, — that " a writer may often in vain trace his memory, at the moment of need,...which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow." IN confirmation of his wish to render this publication, as much as in his power, worthy of the patronage...
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Choice Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief English ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1850 - 492 pages
...avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning ; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment...intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into hin thoughts tomorrow FROM "THE RAMBLER." 212. THE RIGHT IMPROVEMENT OF TIME. It is usual for those...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning ; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment...which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that" the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment...which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much, likewise,...
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Readings in English literature, prose

English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning ; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment...which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much has been...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment...which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. DR. S. JOHNSON : Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language. It may repress the triumph of malignant...
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The Splendid Advantages of Being a Woman

Charles James Dunphie - Women - 1876 - 390 pages
...attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning : and that the writer shall often in pain trace his memory at the moment of need, for that which...which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow." But considerations such as these are beyond the appreciation of the shallow. They cannot afford to...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...avocations will reduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning ; and that the writer comc uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted,...
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