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... one of their own country- men who may be swayed by personal or political bías . Removed from this disturbing influence , he becomes better qualified to sum up impartially the excellences or defects of vi INTRODUCTION .
... one of their own country- men who may be swayed by personal or political bías . Removed from this disturbing influence , he becomes better qualified to sum up impartially the excellences or defects of vi INTRODUCTION .
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... better had that been the family crest , but as that emblem of Heraldic distinction happened to be an owl , and as no ingenuity on the part of the painter could reasonably be expected to make a red lion altogether like a bird , why it ...
... better had that been the family crest , but as that emblem of Heraldic distinction happened to be an owl , and as no ingenuity on the part of the painter could reasonably be expected to make a red lion altogether like a bird , why it ...
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... better than illustrate this by an anecdote we once heard of a very acute critic . A party of friends one evening were discuss- ing the acting of the elder Kean and his son ; all agreed in praising the felicity with which the son ...
... better than illustrate this by an anecdote we once heard of a very acute critic . A party of friends one evening were discuss- ing the acting of the elder Kean and his son ; all agreed in praising the felicity with which the son ...
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... is one of them ! " Paul Jones , the bold - brave Admiral , ought , we consider , not to have been introduced by the author , if he could find nothing better for him to do than to conduct the ship 26 JAMES FENIMORE COOPER .
... is one of them ! " Paul Jones , the bold - brave Admiral , ought , we consider , not to have been introduced by the author , if he could find nothing better for him to do than to conduct the ship 26 JAMES FENIMORE COOPER .
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Thomas Powell. better for him to do than to conduct the ship out of sound- ings . Probably this artistic error arose from that same over- weening national prejudice , which is so great a defect in Mr. Cooper's novels . Had he done ...
Thomas Powell. better for him to do than to conduct the ship out of sound- ings . Probably this artistic error arose from that same over- weening national prejudice , which is so great a defect in Mr. Cooper's novels . Had he done ...
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