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Page xiv
... stand revealed in their biographies and letters to have been , should yet be so incessantly interesting . They succeed one another quickly enough - these biographies ; doing each one of them its bit of iconoclastic work : yet the reader ...
... stand revealed in their biographies and letters to have been , should yet be so incessantly interesting . They succeed one another quickly enough - these biographies ; doing each one of them its bit of iconoclastic work : yet the reader ...
Page xvii
... standing . To me a map of old Ortelius is as authentic as Arrowsmith . I do not know whereabout Africa merges into Asia ; whether Ethiopia lies in one or other of those great divisions ; nor can form the remotest conjecture of the ...
... standing . To me a map of old Ortelius is as authentic as Arrowsmith . I do not know whereabout Africa merges into Asia ; whether Ethiopia lies in one or other of those great divisions ; nor can form the remotest conjecture of the ...
Page xix
... stands upon the site of the houses . Mary Lamb , who was ten years her younger brother's senior , was a dressmaker on a small scale . She always had what her mother , who does not seem greatly to have cared for her , called " moithered ...
... stands upon the site of the houses . Mary Lamb , who was ten years her younger brother's senior , was a dressmaker on a small scale . She always had what her mother , who does not seem greatly to have cared for her , called " moithered ...
Page 9
... stand before it . He is the true actor , who , whether his part be a prince or a peasant , must act it with like intensity . With Tipp form was everything . His life was formal . His actions seemed ruled with a ruler . His pen was not ...
... stand before it . He is the true actor , who , whether his part be a prince or a peasant , must act it with like intensity . With Tipp form was everything . His life was formal . His actions seemed ruled with a ruler . His pen was not ...
Page 15
... standing , methinks , if their Holinesses the Bishops had , in decency , been first sounded —— but I am wading out of my depths . I am not the man to decide the limits of civil and ecclesiastical authority -- I am plain Elia— no Selden ...
... standing , methinks , if their Holinesses the Bishops had , in decency , been first sounded —— but I am wading out of my depths . I am not the man to decide the limits of civil and ecclesiastical authority -- I am plain Elia— no Selden ...
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