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And to simply dial things up to 11 every time around, it's a little bit of crying wolf and it's hard to realize later on, where are the Republicans being genuous (sic) and where are they being disingenuous?
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Though Scarus's reference is to cuts or gashes, today's in genuous reader might well assume that Scarus was preparing to go on a bender.
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From balanc'd wisdom, or for fools* applause? passion or prejudice: and, as a kind pf annotator, it is in - genuous to confess as much as I know of him or his poems,
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L\ickily for her, Davenport's in - genuous confeffion had fecured her a friend in this worthy man, who determined to exert his utmoft care, judgment, and at - tention, to efFeft a reftoration of her health, and afford her confolation.
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He avoided all unneceffary feverity; endeavoring, if poflible, to intereft the feelings of his boys; to win the affection of the in - genuous by kindnefs; and to reftrain the turbulence of the perverfe by {hame and difgrace.
The poetical works, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of the life of the author Clare, Thomas 1796
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