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... progress . Her nature had for her own imagina- tion a certain garden - like quality , a suggestion of perfume and murmuring boughs , of shady bowers and length- VI . ISABEL ARCHER was a young person of many B 2 The Portrait of a Lady . 3.
... progress . Her nature had for her own imagina- tion a certain garden - like quality , a suggestion of perfume and murmuring boughs , of shady bowers and length- VI . ISABEL ARCHER was a young person of many B 2 The Portrait of a Lady . 3.
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... tion ! " " Let me see , " said her uncle , with a humorous intention ; " I forget whether you are a liberal or a con- servative . I have heard you take such opposite views . " " I am both . I think I am a little of everything . In a ...
... tion ! " " Let me see , " said her uncle , with a humorous intention ; " I forget whether you are a liberal or a con- servative . I have heard you take such opposite views . " " I am both . I think I am a little of everything . In a ...
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... tion . Did she think I was making love to her ? " " No ; I believe Americans do that . But she apparently thought you mis- took the intention of something she had said , and put an unkind construc- tion on it . " " I thought she was ...
... tion . Did she think I was making love to her ? " " No ; I believe Americans do that . But she apparently thought you mis- took the intention of something she had said , and put an unkind construc- tion on it . " " I thought she was ...
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... tion to see what is before them , or against what objects they may bruise themselves ? The question might be asked at any time , but it is particu- larly seasonable at a moment when the nation seems unusually confident and ready for ...
... tion to see what is before them , or against what objects they may bruise themselves ? The question might be asked at any time , but it is particu- larly seasonable at a moment when the nation seems unusually confident and ready for ...
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... tion , such a renewing of machinery in every department but politics , the hour was certain to arrive when peo- ple would think without too much anxiety of sending the old English constitution after the old stage - coach and the old ...
... tion , such a renewing of machinery in every department but politics , the hour was certain to arrive when peo- ple would think without too much anxiety of sending the old English constitution after the old stage - coach and the old ...
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Page 197 - And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm; so help me God.
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Page 362 - the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers all his offences and outweighs all his defects: the excellence of sincerity and strength.
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Page 203 - War, but who were unwilling, because unable, to give their unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained in the Book of Common Prayer.
Page 230 - Valour of delicate women who tended the hospital bed, Horror of women in travail among the dying and dead, Grief for our perishing children, and never a moment for grief, Toil and ineffable weariness, faltering hopes of relief...