Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802T. Ostell, 1803 - 454 páginas |
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... tutor . A private Tutor ! said he . Alas ! the labour of Sisyphus in hell is not equal to that of a private Tutor in America ! Why your pro- ject puts me in mind of young Mr. Primrose . And your exclamations , said I , remind me of his ...
... tutor . A private Tutor ! said he . Alas ! the labour of Sisyphus in hell is not equal to that of a private Tutor in America ! Why your pro- ject puts me in mind of young Mr. Primrose . And your exclamations , said I , remind me of his ...
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... Tutor . Can you maintain a profound silence in company to de- note your inferiority ; and can you endure to be helped always the last at table , aye even after the clerk of the counting - house ? No. Then you will not do for a private Tutor ...
... Tutor . Can you maintain a profound silence in company to de- note your inferiority ; and can you endure to be helped always the last at table , aye even after the clerk of the counting - house ? No. Then you will not do for a private Tutor ...
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... Tutor in a respectable family ? I an- swered with a bow . Planter . What , Sir , are your qualifications ? Tutor . I am competently skilled , Sir , in the Latin and French languages , not unacquainted with Greek , conversant with ...
... Tutor in a respectable family ? I an- swered with a bow . Planter . What , Sir , are your qualifications ? Tutor . I am competently skilled , Sir , in the Latin and French languages , not unacquainted with Greek , conversant with ...
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... Tutor . Drive , Sir , did you say ? I really do not comprehend you . Planter . I mean , Sir , can you keep your scholars in order ? Tutor . Yes , Sir , if they are left entirely to my direction . super- Planter . Ah ! that would not be ...
... Tutor . Drive , Sir , did you say ? I really do not comprehend you . Planter . I mean , Sir , can you keep your scholars in order ? Tutor . Yes , Sir , if they are left entirely to my direction . super- Planter . Ah ! that would not be ...
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... Tutor . In his Rape of the Lock , Sir , he exhi- bits most of the vis imaginandi that constitutes the poet ; his Essay on Criticism is scarcely infe- rior to Horace's Epistle to the Pisoes ; his Satires Planter . But I am surprised ...
... Tutor . In his Rape of the Lock , Sir , he exhi- bits most of the vis imaginandi that constitutes the poet ; his Essay on Criticism is scarcely infe- rior to Horace's Epistle to the Pisoes ; his Satires Planter . But I am surprised ...
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