The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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... appearance . I have seen him sometimes in what is called good company , but where he has been a stranger , sit silent , and be suspected for an odd fellow ; till some unlucky occasion provoking it , he would stutter out some senseless ...
... appearance . I have seen him sometimes in what is called good company , but where he has been a stranger , sit silent , and be suspected for an odd fellow ; till some unlucky occasion provoking it , he would stutter out some senseless ...
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... appearance of effort . He has been accused of trying to be witty , when in truth he was but struggling to give his poor thoughts articulation . He chose his companions for some individuality of character which they manifested . - Hence ...
... appearance of effort . He has been accused of trying to be witty , when in truth he was but struggling to give his poor thoughts articulation . He chose his companions for some individuality of character which they manifested . - Hence ...
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... appeared on no other occasion , distinguished the days of his coming . I used to think him a prodigiously rich man . All I could make out of him was , that he and my father had been schoolfellows a world ago at Lincoln , and that he ...
... appeared on no other occasion , distinguished the days of his coming . I used to think him a prodigiously rich man . All I could make out of him was , that he and my father had been schoolfellows a world ago at Lincoln , and that he ...
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... appearance , nay , the very odour ( beyond Russia ) , if we would not forget kind feelings in fastidiousness , of an old " Circulating Library " Tom Jones , or Vicar of Wakefield ! How they speak of the thousand thumbs , that have ...
... appearance , nay , the very odour ( beyond Russia ) , if we would not forget kind feelings in fastidiousness , of an old " Circulating Library " Tom Jones , or Vicar of Wakefield ! How they speak of the thousand thumbs , that have ...
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... appeared to have eaten all over him . He expressed great hopes of a cure ; and when we asked him , whether he had any friends where he was going , he replied , " he had no friends . " These pleasant , and some mournful passages with the ...
... appeared to have eaten all over him . He expressed great hopes of a cure ; and when we asked him , whether he had any friends where he was going , he replied , " he had no friends . " These pleasant , and some mournful passages with the ...
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