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The Teacher's Manual: Being an Exposition of an Efficient and Economical ... - Page 245
by Thomas H. Palmer - 1840 - 263 pages
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The Spectator; in Miniature: Being a Collection of the Principal ..., Volume 1

1808 - 306 pages
...suitahle to his age and quality. Many of the young gentlemen who ohserved the difficulty and confosion he was in, made signs to him that they would accommodate him if he came where they sate : the good in M1 hostled through the crowd accordingly ; hut when he came to the seats to which...
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The British Essayists, Volume 6

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 416 pages
...old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality. Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in, made signs to lu'm that they would accommodate him if he came where they sat. The good man bustled through the crowd...
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The Spectator, Volume 1

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 412 pages
...old gentleman cume too late for a place suitable to his age and quality. Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in, made signs to him thai they would accommodate him if he came vhere they sat. The good man bustled through the crowd accordingly...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality. Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in,...through the crowd accordingly ; but when he came to the scat to which he was invited, the jest was to sit close and expose him, as he stood out of countenance,...
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Proverbs: Chiefly Taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with ..., Volume 2

Proverbs - 1814 - 262 pages
...came too late for a place, suitable to his age and quality. Many of the young men, who observed the confusion he was in, made signs to him, that they...through the crowd accordingly, but when he came to the seat to which he was invited, the jest was to sit close and expose him, as he stood, out of countenance,...
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The Reader: Containing I. The Art of Delivery ... a Selection of Lessons in ...

Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality. Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in,...accommodate him if he came where they sat : the good old man bustled through the crowd accordingly ; but when he came to the seats to which he was invited,...
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The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volume 37

British essayists - 1819 - 370 pages
...old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality. Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in,...came where they sat. The good man bustled through, i _ the crowd accordingly ; but when he came to the seats to which he was invited, the jest was to...
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The Beauties of the Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian,

G. Hamonière - 1819 - 388 pages
...old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality. Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in,...to him that they would accommodate him if he came Je ne doute pas que les Anglois ne soient aujourd'hui aussi polis qu'aucune autre nation du Monde ;...
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The Miscellany,or Evening's Occupation for the Youthful Peasantry of Ireland

1819 - 186 pages
...and quality. A number of yowng men, who observed the difficulty and confusion the poor old gentleman was in, made signs to him, that they would accommodate him, if he came where they sat. Tlie good man bustled through the ' crowd accordingly; but when he came "to the seats to which he was...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality. Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in,...through the crowd accordingly ; but when he came to the seat to which he was invited, the jest was to sit close and expose him, as he stood out of countenance...
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