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Explanation: He pronounces 'Amen' three or four times to the same prayer...if any of his tenants are missing

Explanation: He pronounces 'Amen' three or four times to the same prayer and sometimes stands up when everybody else is upon their knees, to …
Explanation: He pronounces 'Amen' three or four times to the same prayer...if any of his tenants are missing

Explanation: Thus I live in the world, rather as a spectator of mankind, than as one of the species...practical part in life

Explanation: Thus I live in the world, rather as a spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative …
Explanation: Thus I live in the world, rather as a spectator of mankind, than as one of the species...practical part in life

Explanation: It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason...widow of the next country to him

Explanation:  It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next country to him. Answe…
Explanation: It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason...widow of the next country to him

Explanation: And think I have not fulfilled the business of the day...study and contemplation

Explanation:  And think I have not fulfilled the business of the day when I do not thus employ the one in labor and exercise as well as the other in …
Explanation: And think I have not fulfilled the business of the day...study and contemplation

Explanation: "Feuds of this nature, though too frequent in the............... it may be."

Explanation: "Feuds of this nature, though too frequent in the............... it may be." Answer:  This statement has been taken from the f…
Explanation: "Feuds of this nature, though too frequent in the............... it may be."

Explanation: He pronounces amen three or four times to...when everybody else is upon their knees.

Explanation:  He pronounces amen three or four times to the so prayer, and sometimes stands up when everybody else is upon their knees. Answer:  Thes…
Explanation: He pronounces amen three or four times to...when everybody else is upon their knees.

Explanation: I could not but observe with a great deal of pleasure...arrival at his country seat

Explanation:  I could not but observe with a great deal of pleasure, the joy that appeared in the countenances of these ancient domestics upon my fri…
Explanation: I could not but observe with a great deal of pleasure...arrival at his country seat

Explanation: To give herself the larger field for discourse, she hates... in every part of the room

Explanation:  To give herself the larger field for discourse, she hates and loves in the same breath, talks to her lap dog or parrot, is uneasy in al…
Explanation: To give herself the larger field for discourse, she hates... in every part of the room

Explanation: When an old woman begins to do at, and grow chargeable to...distempers and terrifying dreams.

Explanation:  When an old woman begins to do at, and grow chargeable to a parish, She is generally turned into a witch, and fills the whole country w…
Explanation: When an old woman begins to do at, and grow chargeable to...distempers and terrifying dreams.

Explanation: Whenever the widow was cruel, the foxes were sure to pay for it

Explanation:  Whenever the widow was cruel, the foxes were sure to pay  for it. Answer: This sentence has been extracted from the famous essay "…
Explanation: Whenever the widow was cruel, the foxes were sure to pay for it

Explanation: Oh the excellent creature! She is as inimitable to all women, as she is inaccessible to all men

Explanation:  Oh the excellent creature! She is as inimitable to all women,  as she is inaccessible to all men. Answer:  This is part of Sir Roger de…
Explanation: Oh the excellent creature! She is as inimitable to all women, as she is inaccessible to all men

Explanation: This affliction in my life has streaked all my conduct... I should otherwise have been incapable.

Explanation:  This affliction in my life has streaked all my conduct with a softness, of which I should otherwise have been incapable. Answer: It is…
Explanation: This affliction in my life has streaked all my conduct... I should otherwise have been incapable.

Explanation: A polite country esquire shall make you as...There is infinitely more to do...assembly of duchess

Explanation:   A polite country esquire shall make you as many bows in half an hour, as would serve a courtier for a week. There is infinitely more t…
Explanation: A polite country esquire shall make you as...There is infinitely more to do...assembly of duchess

Explanation: It would have gone to your heart to have... creature made on the day of my master's death.

Explanation:   It would have gone to your heart to have heard the moans the  dumb creature made on the day of my master's death.  Answer:  This r…
Explanation: It would have gone to your heart to have... creature made on the day of my master's death.

Explanation: It is the most dead uncomfortable time of the year...suffer very much from their poverty and cold....

Explanation:   It is the most dead uncomfortable time of the year, when the poor people would suffer very much from their poverty and cold.....  Answ…
Explanation: It is the most dead uncomfortable time of the year...suffer very much from their poverty and cold....

Explanation: If a stray piece of linen hangs upon an hedge.. our geese cannot live in peace for them

Explanation:   If a stray piece of linen hangs upon an hedge, they are sure to have it; if a hog looses his way in the fields, it is ten to one but h…
Explanation: If a stray piece of linen hangs upon an hedge.. our geese cannot live in peace for them

Explanation: The particular skill of this lady has ever been to inflame your wishes, and yet command respect

Explanation:   The particular skill of this lady has ever been to inflame your  wishes, and yet command respect. Answer:  These lines occur in Richar…
Explanation: The particular skill of this lady has ever been to inflame your wishes, and yet command respect

Explanation: One may observe also, that the general fashion of one age... from one generation to another

Explanation:   One may observe also, that the general fashion of one age has 30% been followed by one particular set of people in another, and  by th…
Explanation: One may observe also, that the general fashion of one age... from one generation to another

Explanation: A man who preserves a respect founded on his benevolence to his dependents...master in his family

Explanation:   A man who preserves a respect founded on his benevolence to his dependents, lives rather like a prince than a master in his family. An…
Explanation: A man who preserves a respect founded on his benevolence to his dependents...master in his family

Explanation: Thus respect and love go together, and a certain cheerfulness in performance of.... part of this family

Explanation:   Thus respect and love go together, and a certain cheerfulness in performance of their duty is the particular distinction of the lower …
Explanation: Thus respect and love go together, and a certain cheerfulness in performance of.... part of this family
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