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... seems to loom in the future ; but further than the possibility , anything more than seeming - with MR . DISRAELI - I cannot even venture to predict . " You will , therefore , gentlemen , receive the assurance of my distinguished ...
... seems to loom in the future ; but further than the possibility , anything more than seeming - with MR . DISRAELI - I cannot even venture to predict . " You will , therefore , gentlemen , receive the assurance of my distinguished ...
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... seems to have resembled Irish impudence , inasmuch as it could never be put out . Strange , however . that the extreme of heat should be comparable to the height of coolness . ADVANTAGES OF JOLLITY . What's the odds so long as you ' re ...
... seems to have resembled Irish impudence , inasmuch as it could never be put out . Strange , however . that the extreme of heat should be comparable to the height of coolness . ADVANTAGES OF JOLLITY . What's the odds so long as you ' re ...
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... seems clear , at any rate , that they must be thoroughly well " up " in Accidenee . VINGT - UN - A game that some ladies will not give up , even when they are thirty . A CRY OF " STOP . " Ir is high time , sensible persons began to cry ...
... seems clear , at any rate , that they must be thoroughly well " up " in Accidenee . VINGT - UN - A game that some ladies will not give up , even when they are thirty . A CRY OF " STOP . " Ir is high time , sensible persons began to cry ...
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... seems to puzzle all the wisest heads among the gossiping circles ; and all that is known seems to prove nothing but the utter ignorance of the best - informed classes of society . We have employed our own correspondent , and we have ...
... seems to puzzle all the wisest heads among the gossiping circles ; and all that is known seems to prove nothing but the utter ignorance of the best - informed classes of society . We have employed our own correspondent , and we have ...
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... seems , on the walls of the City . It is lucky that the History of England is not written in the same way , for it ... seem planted about the fields like rich flower - beds ; and it has , besides , a number of bright tents , which remind ...
... seems , on the walls of the City . It is lucky that the History of England is not written in the same way , for it ... seem planted about the fields like rich flower - beds ; and it has , besides , a number of bright tents , which remind ...
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Page 198 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below, As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow...
Page 93 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Page 34 - Purchase one not over big ; Coarse ones are not worth a fig ; So a young one buy. See that he is scalded well (That is done by those who sell), Therefore on that point to dwell Were absurdity. Sage and bread, mix just enough, Salt and pepper quantum suff., And the pig's interior stuff, With the whole combined.