Cooper's Works, Volume 17Stringer and Townsend, 1855 - American literature |
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... better means than by resorting to your agency . All I ask is that you will have the book fairly printed , and that you will send one copy to my address , Householder - hall , Dorset- shire , England , and another to Capt . Noah Poke ...
... better means than by resorting to your agency . All I ask is that you will have the book fairly printed , and that you will send one copy to my address , Householder - hall , Dorset- shire , England , and another to Capt . Noah Poke ...
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... deal of painful and unnecessary labor , in the other . Thrown upon myself , therefore , for what the French call les pièces justificatives of my theories , as well as of my facts , I see no better way to prepare THE MONIKINS ...
... deal of painful and unnecessary labor , in the other . Thrown upon myself , therefore , for what the French call les pièces justificatives of my theories , as well as of my facts , I see no better way to prepare THE MONIKINS ...
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James Fenimore Cooper. my facts , I see no better way to prepare the reader to believe me , than by giving an unvarnished nar- rative of my descent , birth , education and life , up to the time I became a spectator of those wonder- ful ...
James Fenimore Cooper. my facts , I see no better way to prepare the reader to believe me , than by giving an unvarnished nar- rative of my descent , birth , education and life , up to the time I became a spectator of those wonder- ful ...
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... better to commit the keeping of his mo- ney to one , who , knowing the secret by which it had been accumulated , had less inducement to be dishonest , than one who was exposed to the tempt- ation of covetousness , without having a ...
... better to commit the keeping of his mo- ney to one , who , knowing the secret by which it had been accumulated , had less inducement to be dishonest , than one who was exposed to the tempt- ation of covetousness , without having a ...
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... better right to complain . Now , as her hus- band never dreamt of making such an accusation , it is not at all surprising that my ancestor remained in ignorance of his wife's feelings , to the hour of his death . It has been said that ...
... better right to complain . Now , as her hus- band never dreamt of making such an accusation , it is not at all surprising that my ancestor remained in ignorance of his wife's feelings , to the hour of his death . It has been said that ...
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Page 327 - ... that he must have the attributes of a conscience, of which memory formed one of the most essential features. Conscience was defined to be " the faculty by which we judge of the goodness or wickedness of our own actions.