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... character , in prose and verse . It was proposed , in the critical pieces , to retain the extracts with which they were originally adorned , as this would give them far more harmony and interest for the general reader . The translation ...
... character , in prose and verse . It was proposed , in the critical pieces , to retain the extracts with which they were originally adorned , as this would give them far more harmony and interest for the general reader . The translation ...
Page 27
... character enough to exhibit in their persons not only the stock from which they sprang , but what was special in themselves harmonized with it . There were ten years betwixt them , but the younger verged on middle age ; and permanent ...
... character enough to exhibit in their persons not only the stock from which they sprang , but what was special in themselves harmonized with it . There were ten years betwixt them , but the younger verged on middle age ; and permanent ...
Page 54
... character of her husband , to have stated faults , which she was sure would not have been dust in the balance , placed in the scale opposite to his merits . " " One pas- Indeed , the defect here was not to be hidden , since it sapped ...
... character of her husband , to have stated faults , which she was sure would not have been dust in the balance , placed in the scale opposite to his merits . " " One pas- Indeed , the defect here was not to be hidden , since it sapped ...
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... character , Sir James went to lead a life of great animal and mental excitement in Edinburgh . Here he first tourneyed with the world , and came off from the lists , not inglorious if not altogether victorious . Al- ready he had loved ...
... character , Sir James went to lead a life of great animal and mental excitement in Edinburgh . Here he first tourneyed with the world , and came off from the lists , not inglorious if not altogether victorious . Al- ready he had loved ...
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... character , of learning by the hour , and dividing the attention by rule and line ; but the young should be so variously called out and disciplined , that they may be sure that it is a genuine vocation , and not an accidental bias ...
... character , of learning by the hour , and dividing the attention by rule and line ; but the young should be so variously called out and disciplined , that they may be sure that it is a genuine vocation , and not an accidental bias ...
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