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Page 47
... things were hidden from the forward - ranging vision of Defoe . They would in any case have bored one for whom a thriving fish - market held more romance than an Oxford quadrangle . The establishment of a Penny Post in London , in ...
... things were hidden from the forward - ranging vision of Defoe . They would in any case have bored one for whom a thriving fish - market held more romance than an Oxford quadrangle . The establishment of a Penny Post in London , in ...
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... things local and trivial into things universal and permanent , the tide of existence flowed , in one sense , as fully through Olney market - place as it did for Johnson at Charing Cross . 66 In the summer the country was accessible and ...
... things local and trivial into things universal and permanent , the tide of existence flowed , in one sense , as fully through Olney market - place as it did for Johnson at Charing Cross . 66 In the summer the country was accessible and ...
Page 247
... things with , and these little things are so fugitive , that while a man catches at the subject , he is only filling his hand with smoke . I must do with it as I do with my linnet : I keep him for the most part in a cage , but now and ...
... things with , and these little things are so fugitive , that while a man catches at the subject , he is only filling his hand with smoke . I must do with it as I do with my linnet : I keep him for the most part in a cage , but now and ...
Contents
FOREWORD II | 11 |
AN EXTRAMUNDANE AND HIS WORLD | 34 |
THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL | 158 |
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