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... better library , -are very agreeable and edifying spectacles . I can look upon these defunct dragons with complacency . Thy heavy , odd - shaped , ivory - handled penknives ( our ancestors had every- thing on a larger scale than we have ...
... better library , -are very agreeable and edifying spectacles . I can look upon these defunct dragons with complacency . Thy heavy , odd - shaped , ivory - handled penknives ( our ancestors had every- thing on a larger scale than we have ...
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... better than such as at first sight seems most abhorrent from his beloved studies ) to while away some good hours of my time in the contemplation of indigos , cottons , raw silks , piece - goods , flowered or otherwise . In the first ...
... better than such as at first sight seems most abhorrent from his beloved studies ) to while away some good hours of my time in the contemplation of indigos , cottons , raw silks , piece - goods , flowered or otherwise . In the first ...
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... better Jude with Simon - clubbing ( as it were ) their sanctities together , to make up one poor gaudy - day between them — as an economy unworthy of the dispensation . These were bright visitations in a scholar's and a clerk's life ...
... better Jude with Simon - clubbing ( as it were ) their sanctities together , to make up one poor gaudy - day between them — as an economy unworthy of the dispensation . These were bright visitations in a scholar's and a clerk's life ...
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... better than all the waters of Damascus . " On the Muses ' hill he is happy , and good , as one of the Shepherds on the Delectable Mountains ; and when he goes about with you to show you the halls and colleges , you think you have with ...
... better than all the waters of Damascus . " On the Muses ' hill he is happy , and good , as one of the Shepherds on the Delectable Mountains ; and when he goes about with you to show you the halls and colleges , you think you have with ...
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... River , which L. recalls with such relish , better , I think , than he can -- for he was a home- seeking lad , and did not much care for such water- - pastimes : How merrily we would sally forth into FIVE - AND - THIRTY YEARS AGO . 29.
... River , which L. recalls with such relish , better , I think , than he can -- for he was a home- seeking lad , and did not much care for such water- - pastimes : How merrily we would sally forth into FIVE - AND - THIRTY YEARS AGO . 29.
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