Cooper's Works, Volume 17Stringer and Townsend, 1855 - American literature |
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Page 18
... occasion to throw in a use- ful moral , notwithstanding the general character of veracity that distinguished his commerce .- " Now , what dost think , lad , may be the amount of my capital ? " My ancestor in the male line hesitated to ...
... occasion to throw in a use- ful moral , notwithstanding the general character of veracity that distinguished his commerce .- " Now , what dost think , lad , may be the amount of my capital ? " My ancestor in the male line hesitated to ...
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... consents that I shall be the instrument of revealing it . " The Doctor paused ; for , on such occasions it is perhaps as well to let the party that is about to be shocked , receive a little of the blow through his 30 THE MONIKINS .
... consents that I shall be the instrument of revealing it . " The Doctor paused ; for , on such occasions it is perhaps as well to let the party that is about to be shocked , receive a little of the blow through his 30 THE MONIKINS .
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... occasion to observe , and which there is some reason to think , depends on a princi- ple of attraction that has hitherto escaped the sa- gacity of the philosophers , but which is as active in the immaterial , as is that of gravitation ...
... occasion to observe , and which there is some reason to think , depends on a princi- ple of attraction that has hitherto escaped the sa- gacity of the philosophers , but which is as active in the immaterial , as is that of gravitation ...
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... occasions , he did not spare allusions to the gallows : Sir Fran- cis Burdett , in particular , was a target for a good deal of billingsgate ; and men as upright and as respectable even as my lords Grey , Lansdowne , and Holland , were ...
... occasions , he did not spare allusions to the gallows : Sir Fran- cis Burdett , in particular , was a target for a good deal of billingsgate ; and men as upright and as respectable even as my lords Grey , Lansdowne , and Holland , were ...
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... occasion ( bitterly did I feel the slight ) she actually recounted to her father the amusing incidents of a little birth - day fête at which she had been present , and which was given by a gen- tleman of the vicinity , before she even ...
... occasion ( bitterly did I feel the slight ) she actually recounted to her father the amusing incidents of a little birth - day fête at which she had been present , and which was given by a gen- tleman of the vicinity , before she even ...
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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.