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Page 3
... expression of incredulous admiration , and hopeless ambition of rivalry , as would become the puny face of modern conspiracy contemplating the Titan size of Vaux's superhuman plot . Peace to the manes of the BUBBLE ! Silence and ...
... expression of incredulous admiration , and hopeless ambition of rivalry , as would become the puny face of modern conspiracy contemplating the Titan size of Vaux's superhuman plot . Peace to the manes of the BUBBLE ! Silence and ...
Page 95
... expressions of a sober remorse . And it was not till long after the impression had begun to wear away , that I was enabled , with something like a smile , to recall the striking incongruity of the confession -understanding the term in ...
... expressions of a sober remorse . And it was not till long after the impression had begun to wear away , that I was enabled , with something like a smile , to recall the striking incongruity of the confession -understanding the term in ...
Page 117
... expressing them . Their intellectual wardrobe ( to confess fairly ) has few whole pieces in it . They are content with fragments and scattered pieces of Truth . She presents no full front to them - a feature or side- face at the most ...
... expressing them . Their intellectual wardrobe ( to confess fairly ) has few whole pieces in it . They are content with fragments and scattered pieces of Truth . She presents no full front to them - a feature or side- face at the most ...
Page 119
... expressions before a Caledonian . Clap an extinguisher upon your irony , if you are unhappily blest with a vein of it ... expression ( in my South British way ) , that I wished it were the father instead of the son - when four of them ...
... expressions before a Caledonian . Clap an extinguisher upon your irony , if you are unhappily blest with a vein of it ... expression ( in my South British way ) , that I wished it were the father instead of the son - when four of them ...
Page 120
... expressing it . But I have always found that a true Scot resents your admiration of his compatriot , even more than he would your contempt of him . The latter he imputes to your " imperfect acquaintance with many of the words which he ...
... expressing it . But I have always found that a true Scot resents your admiration of his compatriot , even more than he would your contempt of him . The latter he imputes to your " imperfect acquaintance with many of the words which he ...
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