The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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... latter it is chance but some pre- sent human frailty - an act of inattention on the part some of the auditory - or a trait of affectation , or worse , vain - glory , on that of the preacher - puts us by our best thoughts ...
... latter it is chance but some pre- sent human frailty - an act of inattention on the part some of the auditory - or a trait of affectation , or worse , vain - glory , on that of the preacher - puts us by our best thoughts ...
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... latter especially — is carried to an access that would appear harsh and incredible . The temperament of W's father was diametrically the reverse of his own . Old W- was a little , busy , cringing tradesman , who , with his son upon his ...
... latter especially — is carried to an access that would appear harsh and incredible . The temperament of W's father was diametrically the reverse of his own . Old W- was a little , busy , cringing tradesman , who , with his son upon his ...
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... latter sentence of the few words I am about to record . One proud day to me he took his roast mutton with us in the Temple , to which I had superadded a preliminary haddock . After a rather plentiful partaking of the meagre banquet ...
... latter sentence of the few words I am about to record . One proud day to me he took his roast mutton with us in the Temple , to which I had superadded a preliminary haddock . After a rather plentiful partaking of the meagre banquet ...
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... latter are more staled and rung upon in common discourse . The sweetest names , and which carry a perfume in the mention , are , Kit Marlowe , Drayton , Drummond of Hawthornden , and Cowley . Much depends upon when and where you read a ...
... latter are more staled and rung upon in common discourse . The sweetest names , and which carry a perfume in the mention , are , Kit Marlowe , Drayton , Drummond of Hawthornden , and Cowley . Much depends upon when and where you read a ...
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... latter we had expected to behold ( absurdly , I grant , but , I am afraid , by the law of imagination un- avoidably ) not a definite object , as those wild beasts , or that mountain compassable by the eye , but all the sea at once , THE ...
... latter we had expected to behold ( absurdly , I grant , but , I am afraid , by the law of imagination un- avoidably ) not a definite object , as those wild beasts , or that mountain compassable by the eye , but all the sea at once , THE ...
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