The Last Essays of EliaG. Routledge & sons, 1880 - 119 pages |
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... common of his visits . He had refused school ) and the boys whose pater- with a resistance amounting to nal residence was on the plain ; a rigour - when my aunt , an old sufficient cause of hostility in the Lincolnian , but who had some ...
... common of his visits . He had refused school ) and the boys whose pater- with a resistance amounting to nal residence was on the plain ; a rigour - when my aunt , an old sufficient cause of hostility in the Lincolnian , but who had some ...
Page 100
... common , though not a very courteous inquiry . Put by one gentleman to another at a dinner- party , it would have been vapid ; to the mistress of the house , it would have shown much less wit than rudeness . We must take in the totality ...
... common , though not a very courteous inquiry . Put by one gentleman to another at a dinner- party , it would have been vapid ; to the mistress of the house , it would have shown much less wit than rudeness . We must take in the totality ...
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... common among some gardeners in his neighbourhood , as well as several persons of quality ; for he ever thought all things of this kind " the commoner they are made the better . " The garden pedantry with which he asserts that ' tis to ...
... common among some gardeners in his neighbourhood , as well as several persons of quality ; for he ever thought all things of this kind " the commoner they are made the better . " The garden pedantry with which he asserts that ' tis to ...
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