The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries |
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... and it is only when fair individuals have been by extraneous circumstances thrown out , as it were , on the canvas of human affairs when they B have been forced into a publicity little consistent with their CHAPTER Page Introductory.
... and it is only when fair individuals have been by extraneous circumstances thrown out , as it were , on the canvas of human affairs when they B have been forced into a publicity little consistent with their CHAPTER Page Introductory.
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... Fair reader ! you see that this gentle dame NEEDLE- WORK is of ancient lineage , of high descent , of courtly habits will you not permit me to make you somewhat better acquainted ? Pray travel onward with me to her shrine . The way is ...
... Fair reader ! you see that this gentle dame NEEDLE- WORK is of ancient lineage , of high descent , of courtly habits will you not permit me to make you somewhat better acquainted ? Pray travel onward with me to her shrine . The way is ...
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... fair scions which sprang up and bloomed around her hearth did her thoughts forsake her first - born ; and yearly , when she went up to the Tabernacle with Elkanah her husband , did she take him " a little coat " which she had made . We ...
... fair scions which sprang up and bloomed around her hearth did her thoughts forsake her first - born ; and yearly , when she went up to the Tabernacle with Elkanah her husband , did she take him " a little coat " which she had made . We ...
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... fair brow , the pure and holy child appears like a seraph administering at that altar to which he had been consecrated a babe , and at which his ministry was sanctioned even by the voice of the Most High himself , when in the solemn ...
... fair brow , the pure and holy child appears like a seraph administering at that altar to which he had been consecrated a babe , and at which his ministry was sanctioned even by the voice of the Most High himself , when in the solemn ...
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... fair in- mates of those tents , the most accomplished of Israel's daughters , display to their illustrious visitors the " fine needlework " to which their time and talents had been for a long season devoted , and which was now on the ...
... fair in- mates of those tents , the most accomplished of Israel's daughters , display to their illustrious visitors the " fine needlework " to which their time and talents had been for a long season devoted , and which was now on the ...
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