Cooper's Works, Volume 17Stringer and Townsend, 1855 - American literature |
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... of my ancestor , which soon brought all his errant sympathies , the mere exuberance of acute and overflowing feelings , into a proper and useful subjection , centering all in the one absorbing and capacious THE MONIKINS . 21.
... of my ancestor , which soon brought all his errant sympathies , the mere exuberance of acute and overflowing feelings , into a proper and useful subjection , centering all in the one absorbing and capacious THE MONIKINS . 21.
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... soon became as strongly attached to the child , as if it really owed its exist- ence to himself . The little girl was carefully nursed abundantly fed , and throve accordingly . She had reached her third year , when the fancy - dealer ...
... soon became as strongly attached to the child , as if it really owed its exist- ence to himself . The little girl was carefully nursed abundantly fed , and throve accordingly . She had reached her third year , when the fancy - dealer ...
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... soon her parting request is forgotten , how useless has been the example of her holy end , how rooted and fearful are thine own infirmities ! " My father was more rebuked by the manner than by the words of the divine . He passed his ...
... soon her parting request is forgotten , how useless has been the example of her holy end , how rooted and fearful are thine own infirmities ! " My father was more rebuked by the manner than by the words of the divine . He passed his ...
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... soon determined to set up one of my own , which , while it avoided the faults , should include the excellencies , of both the others . It was , of course , no great affair merely to form such a resolution ; but I shall have occasion to ...
... soon determined to set up one of my own , which , while it avoided the faults , should include the excellencies , of both the others . It was , of course , no great affair merely to form such a resolution ; but I shall have occasion to ...
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... soon as the melancholy truth was fairly established , and remained several minutes alone with the body . The countenance was set in death . The eyes , still open , had that revolting glare of frenzied delight with which the spirit had ...
... soon as the melancholy truth was fairly established , and remained several minutes alone with the body . The countenance was set in death . The eyes , still open , had that revolting glare of frenzied delight with which the spirit had ...
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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.