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... favourite authors to be our best - loved men . Smashing idols is an irreverent occupation endurable only in our wilder hours . A time comes in most men's lives when the bell rings for prayer , and unhappy are they who , when it does ...
... favourite authors to be our best - loved men . Smashing idols is an irreverent occupation endurable only in our wilder hours . A time comes in most men's lives when the bell rings for prayer , and unhappy are they who , when it does ...
Page 34
... favourite state - room ) , where awaited him the whole number of his schoolfellows , whose joint lessons and sports he was thenceforth to share no more ; the awful presence of the steward , to be seen for the last time ; of the ...
... favourite state - room ) , where awaited him the whole number of his schoolfellows , whose joint lessons and sports he was thenceforth to share no more ; the awful presence of the steward , to be seen for the last time ; of the ...
Page 38
... favourite adjuration ) " I have a great mind to whip you , ” — then , with as sudden a retracting impulse , fling back into his lair — and , after a cooling lapse of some minutes ( during which all but the culprit had totally forgotten ...
... favourite adjuration ) " I have a great mind to whip you , ” — then , with as sudden a retracting impulse , fling back into his lair — and , after a cooling lapse of some minutes ( during which all but the culprit had totally forgotten ...
Page 57
... favourite ? If these speculations seem fantastical to thee , reader- ( a busy man , perchance ) , if I tread out of the way of thy sympathy , and am singularly - conceited only , I retire , impenetrable to ridicule , under the phantom ...
... favourite ? If these speculations seem fantastical to thee , reader- ( a busy man , perchance ) , if I tread out of the way of thy sympathy , and am singularly - conceited only , I retire , impenetrable to ridicule , under the phantom ...
Page 65
... favourite suit . I never in my life and I knew Sarah Battle many of the best years of it - saw her take out her snuff - box when it was her turn to play ; or snuff a candle in the middle of a game ; or ring for a servant , till it was ...
... favourite suit . I never in my life and I knew Sarah Battle many of the best years of it - saw her take out her snuff - box when it was her turn to play ; or snuff a candle in the middle of a game ; or ring for a servant , till it was ...
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