Cooper's Works, Volume 17Stringer and Townsend, 1855 - American literature |
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... 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 ...
... 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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... means connected with his ordinary business ; and as for a floating capital , he did not well see how it could be of much account , since the disproportion between the cost and the selling prices of the different articles in which they ...
... means connected with his ordinary business ; and as for a floating capital , he did not well see how it could be of much account , since the disproportion between the cost and the selling prices of the different articles in which they ...
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... means by which we can carry our personal effects into the other world ; that " what cannot be cured must be endured ; " that he must of necessity have confided this important trust to some fellow - creature , and that it was better to ...
... means by which we can carry our personal effects into the other world ; that " what cannot be cured must be endured ; " that he must of necessity have confided this important trust to some fellow - creature , and that it was better to ...
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... means , and his con- templations on the subject of his great floating capi- tal became more profound and philosophical . A man of my ancestor's native sagacity , whose whole soul was absorbed in the pursuit of gain , who had so long ...
... means , and his con- templations on the subject of his great floating capi- tal became more profound and philosophical . A man of my ancestor's native sagacity , whose whole soul was absorbed in the pursuit of gain , who had so long ...
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... mean- ing of the word , ) he thought that he had done al that man could do , in a case of life and death , in- terests over which he professed to have no control . He saw Dr. Etherington , the rector , come and go daily , for a month ...
... mean- ing of the word , ) he thought that he had done al that man could do , in a case of life and death , in- terests over which he professed to have no control . He saw Dr. Etherington , the rector , come and go daily , for a month ...
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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.