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... thing on a larger scale than we have hearts for ) are as good as anything from Herculaneum . The pounce- boxes of our days have gone retrograde . The very clerks which I remember in the South - Sea House - I speak of forty years back ...
... thing on a larger scale than we have hearts for ) are as good as anything from Herculaneum . The pounce- boxes of our days have gone retrograde . The very clerks which I remember in the South - Sea House - I speak of forty years back ...
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... things ( as they call them in the city ) in his beloved house , or did not sigh for a return of the old stirring days when South - Sea hopes were young- ( he was indeed equal to the wielding of any the most in- tricate accounts of the ...
... things ( as they call them in the city ) in his beloved house , or did not sigh for a return of the old stirring days when South - Sea hopes were young- ( he was indeed equal to the wielding of any the most in- tricate accounts of the ...
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... things , and that our ancestors wandered to and fro groping ! Above all thy rarities , old Oxenford , what do most arride and solace me , are thy repositories of mouldering learning , thy shelves- * Januses of one face . - SIR THOMAS ...
... things , and that our ancestors wandered to and fro groping ! Above all thy rarities , old Oxenford , what do most arride and solace me , are thy repositories of mouldering learning , thy shelves- * Januses of one face . - SIR THOMAS ...
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... thing surprised— at that moment , reader , he is on Mount Tabor- or Parnassusor co - sphered with Plato - or , with Harrington , framing " immortal commonwealths " devising some plan of amelioration to thy country , or thy species ...
... thing surprised— at that moment , reader , he is on Mount Tabor- or Parnassusor co - sphered with Plato - or , with Harrington , framing " immortal commonwealths " devising some plan of amelioration to thy country , or thy species ...
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... thing ) , and brought him daily by his maid or aunt ! I remember the good old relative ( in whom love forbade pride ) squatting down upon some odd stone in a by - nook of the cloisters , disclosing the viands ( of higher regale than ...
... thing ) , and brought him daily by his maid or aunt ! I remember the good old relative ( in whom love forbade pride ) squatting down upon some odd stone in a by - nook of the cloisters , disclosing the viands ( of higher regale than ...
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