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... took in this pursuit led him into wider fields and eventually his private library of rare books was one of the best of its day . My own copy of Boswell's biographical masterpiece is an old , fat , and decrepit volume with a broken back ...
... took in this pursuit led him into wider fields and eventually his private library of rare books was one of the best of its day . My own copy of Boswell's biographical masterpiece is an old , fat , and decrepit volume with a broken back ...
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... took care to keep copies of them for his book . He examined the parish registers and drew up a table of births , burials , and marriages over a period of twenty years . Out of all of these things came a simple and permanently enjoyable ...
... took care to keep copies of them for his book . He examined the parish registers and drew up a table of births , burials , and marriages over a period of twenty years . Out of all of these things came a simple and permanently enjoyable ...
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... took a coalition of Democrats and Republicans to beat him - there was another American author who took the opposite tack with enormous success . That was Samuel Langhorne Clemens , alias Mark Twain , who had no use for theories , no ...
... took a coalition of Democrats and Republicans to beat him - there was another American author who took the opposite tack with enormous success . That was Samuel Langhorne Clemens , alias Mark Twain , who had no use for theories , no ...
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