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Page 85
... expressions of a sober remorse . And it was not till long after the impression had begun to wear away , that I was enabled , with something like a smile , to recall the striking incongruity of the confession understanding the term in ...
... expressions of a sober remorse . And it was not till long after the impression had begun to wear away , that I was enabled , with something like a smile , to recall the striking incongruity of the confession understanding the term in ...
Page 99
... expressing them . Their intellectual wardrobe ( to * I would be understood as confining myself to the subject of imperfect sympathies . To nations or classes of men there can be no direct antipathy . There may be individuals born and ...
... expressing them . Their intellectual wardrobe ( to * I would be understood as confining myself to the subject of imperfect sympathies . To nations or classes of men there can be no direct antipathy . There may be individuals born and ...
Page 101
... expressions before a Caledonian . Clap an extinguisher upon your irony , if you are unhappily blest with a vein of it . Remember you are upon your oath . I have a print of a graceful female after Leonardo da Vinci , which I was showing ...
... expressions before a Caledonian . Clap an extinguisher upon your irony , if you are unhappily blest with a vein of it . Remember you are upon your oath . I have a print of a graceful female after Leonardo da Vinci , which I was showing ...
Page 102
... expression ( in my South British way ) , that I wished it were the father instead of the son , when four of them started up at once to inform me , that “ that was impossible , because he was dead . ” An impracticable wish , it seems ...
... expression ( in my South British way ) , that I wished it were the father instead of the son , when four of them started up at once to inform me , that “ that was impossible , because he was dead . ” An impracticable wish , it seems ...
Page 103
... expressing it . But I have always found that a true Scot resents your admiration of his compatriot , even more than he would your contempt of him . The lat- ter he imputes to your " imperfect acquaintance with many of the words which he ...
... expressing it . But I have always found that a true Scot resents your admiration of his compatriot , even more than he would your contempt of him . The lat- ter he imputes to your " imperfect acquaintance with many of the words which he ...
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