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This work , in fact , is specially designed to make it possible for those who have a fair amount of culture , and desire more , to own , -- and hence to read with pleasure and advantage at any moment when they wish to do so , - a goodly ...
This work , in fact , is specially designed to make it possible for those who have a fair amount of culture , and desire more , to own , -- and hence to read with pleasure and advantage at any moment when they wish to do so , - a goodly ...
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It is no wonder , therefore , he succeeds in it better than the man of humanity , as a person who makes use of indirect methods is more likely to grow rich than the fair trader . VISION OF MIRZA Omnem , quae nunc obducta tuenti Mortales ...
It is no wonder , therefore , he succeeds in it better than the man of humanity , as a person who makes use of indirect methods is more likely to grow rich than the fair trader . VISION OF MIRZA Omnem , quae nunc obducta tuenti Mortales ...
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... with fair open lakes . They mounted so high , so high ! and the ugly little Duckling felt quite strangely as it watched them . It turned round and round in the water like a wheel , stretched out its neck towards them , and uttered ...
... with fair open lakes . They mounted so high , so high ! and the ugly little Duckling felt quite strangely as it watched them . It turned round and round in the water like a wheel , stretched out its neck towards them , and uttered ...
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It was put in the furnace , and turned into an iron candlestick , as fair a candlestick as you would desire one on which wax lights were to be burned . It had received the form of an angel holding a great nosegay ; and the wax light was ...
It was put in the furnace , and turned into an iron candlestick , as fair a candlestick as you would desire one on which wax lights were to be burned . It had received the form of an angel holding a great nosegay ; and the wax light was ...
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( From " THE GOLDEN Ass ” ) THE STORY OF CUPID AND PSYCHE In a certain city lived a king and queen who had three daughters exceeding fair . But the beauty of the two elder , though pleasant to behold , yet passed not the measure of ...
( From " THE GOLDEN Ass ” ) THE STORY OF CUPID AND PSYCHE In a certain city lived a king and queen who had three daughters exceeding fair . But the beauty of the two elder , though pleasant to behold , yet passed not the measure of ...
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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