Madam, (says he, to the first of them) you have been upon the earth about fifty years : what have you been doing there all this while ?' ' Doing ! (says she) really I do not know what I have been doing : I desire I may have time given me to recollect. The British Essayists;: Guardian - Page 182by Alexander Chalmers - 1807Full view - About this book
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