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| Jonathan Swift - 1886 - 222 sider
...before him. The French, from whom we borrow the word, have a quite different idea of the thing, and so had we in the politer age of our fathers. Raillery was, to say something that at first appeared a reproach or reflection, but, by some turn of wit unexpected... | |
| Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 sider
...before him. The French, whence we borrow the word, have a quite different idea of the thing, and so th hay, which his mother ordered to be hung up in that ma say something that at first appeared a reproach or reflection, but, by some turn of wit, unexpected... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 sider
...before him. The French, from whence we borrow the word, have a quite different idea of the thing, and so had we in the politer age of our fathers. Raillery was to say something that at first appeared a reproach or reflection, but, by some turn of wit, unexpected... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 sider
...before him. The French, from whence we borrow the word, have a quite different idea of the thing, and so had we in the politer age of our fathers. Raillery was to say something that at first appeared a reproach or reflection, but, by some turn of wit, unexpected... | |
| Annie Barnett - 1900 - 1060 sider
...before him. The French, from whence we borrow the word, have a quite different idea of the thing, and so had we in the politer age of our fathers. Raillery was to say something that at first appeared a reproach or reflection, but, by some turn of wit, unexpected... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1903 - 512 sider
...before him. The French, from whence we borrow the word, have a quite different idea of the thing, and so had we in the politer age of our fathers. Raillery was to say something that at first appeared a reproach or reflection, but, by some turn of wit, unexpected... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1903 - 504 sider
...before him. The French, from whence we borrow the word, have a quite different idea of the thing, and so had we in the politer age of our fathers. Raillery was to say something that at first appeared a reproach or reflection, but, by some turn of wit, unexpected... | |
| 1903
...before him. The French, from whence we borrow the word, have a quite different idea of the thing, and so had we in the politer age of our fathers. Raillery was to say something that at first appeared a reproach or reflection, but, by some turn of wit, unexpected... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 502 sider
...before him. The French, from whence we borrow the word, have a quite different idea of the thing, and so had we in the politer age of our fathers. Raillery was to say something that at first appeared a reproach or reflection; but, by some turn of wit unexpected... | |
| Charles William Eliot - 1910 - 440 sider
...before him. The French, from whence we borrow the word, have a quite different idea of the thing, and so had we in the politer age of our fathers. Raillery was to say something that at first appeared a reproach or reflection ; but, by some turn of wit unexpected... | |
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