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... 281 TO THE SHADE OF ELLISTON ELLISTONIANA THE OLD MARGATE HOY 285 289 296 THE CONVALESCENT • 306 SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS 312 • CAPTAIN JACKSON 316 PAGE THE SUPERANNUATED MAN 322 THE GENTEEL STYLE IN WRITING vi CONTENTS .
... 281 TO THE SHADE OF ELLISTON ELLISTONIANA THE OLD MARGATE HOY 285 289 296 THE CONVALESCENT • 306 SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS 312 • CAPTAIN JACKSON 316 PAGE THE SUPERANNUATED MAN 322 THE GENTEEL STYLE IN WRITING vi CONTENTS .
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... true actor , who , whether his part be a prince or a peasant , must act it with like intensity . With Tipp form was everything . His life was formal . His actions seemed ruled with a ruler . His pen was not less erring than his heart ...
... true actor , who , whether his part be a prince or a peasant , must act it with like intensity . With Tipp form was everything . His life was formal . His actions seemed ruled with a ruler . His pen was not less erring than his heart ...
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... true taxer who " calleth all the world up to be taxed ; " and the distance is as vast between him . and one of us , as subsisted between the Augustan Majesty and the poorest obolary Jew that paid it tribute - pittance at Jerusalem ...
... true taxer who " calleth all the world up to be taxed ; " and the distance is as vast between him . and one of us , as subsisted between the Augustan Majesty and the poorest obolary Jew that paid it tribute - pittance at Jerusalem ...
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... true Propontic which never ebbeth ! The sea which taketh handsomely at each man's hand . In vain the victim , whom he delighteth to honor , struggles with destiny ; he is in the net . Lend there- fore cheerfully , O man ordained to lend ...
... true Propontic which never ebbeth ! The sea which taketh handsomely at each man's hand . In vain the victim , whom he delighteth to honor , struggles with destiny ; he is in the net . Lend there- fore cheerfully , O man ordained to lend ...
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... true Hebrews . they stand in conjunction ; natives , and naturalized . The latter seem as little disposed to inquire out their true lineage as I am . —I charge no warehouse - room for these deodands , nor shall ever put myself to the ...
... true Hebrews . they stand in conjunction ; natives , and naturalized . The latter seem as little disposed to inquire out their true lineage as I am . —I charge no warehouse - room for these deodands , nor shall ever put myself to the ...
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