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.; and another, moderately extensive, the property of john wood, esq., a gentleman of great worth for every manly feeling, who resides in an adjacent elegant mansion ; of a moderate yet convenient size, placed in a well-arranged paddock and gardens, from which there are beautiful prospects, and a delightful
affectionate head of his family. green field on the road to bosley, is green field (or smith-field) containing several strata of excellent coals and marls, and some beautiful prospects. the very elegant and commodious mansion, seen from the high road, has a truly picturesque appearance, in a pleasant hanging wood...
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for it was well known that her father idmon dwelt in colophon; where, at his humble trade, he dyed in phocean purples, fleecy wool. her mother, also of the lower class, had died. arachne in a mountain town hypaepae by skill had grown so famous in the land of lydia, that unnumbered curious nymphs eager
even as she spoke, before withdrawing from her victim's sight, she sprinkled her with juice--extract of herbs of hecate. at once all hair fell off, her nose and ears remained not, and her head shrunk rapidly in size, as well as all her body, leaving her diminutive....
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