The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 1G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Anthologies |
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... fall short of them in accuracy and correctness . The moderns cannot reach their beauties , but can avoid their imper- fections . When the world was furnished with these authors of the first eminence , there grew up another set of ...
... fall short of them in accuracy and correctness . The moderns cannot reach their beauties , but can avoid their imper- fections . When the world was furnished with these authors of the first eminence , there grew up another set of ...
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... falling foul upon one another . Half the misery of human life might be extinguished , would men alleviate the general curse they lie under , by mutual offices of compassion , benevolence , and humanity . There is nothing therefore which ...
... falling foul upon one another . Half the misery of human life might be extinguished , would men alleviate the general curse they lie under , by mutual offices of compassion , benevolence , and humanity . There is nothing therefore which ...
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... falls indifferently upon friends or enemies , exposes the person who has obliged him , and , in short , sticks at nothing that may estab- lish his character as a wit . It is no wonder , therefore , he suc- ceeds in it better than the ...
... falls indifferently upon friends or enemies , exposes the person who has obliged him , and , in short , sticks at nothing that may estab- lish his character as a wit . It is no wonder , therefore , he suc- ceeds in it better than the ...
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... falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge , so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud , but many of them fell into them . They grew thinner towards the middle , but multiplied and lay closer together ...
... falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge , so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud , but many of them fell into them . They grew thinner towards the middle , but multiplied and lay closer together ...
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... fall into it . ' I directed my sight as I was ordered , and , whether or no the good genius strengthened it with any supernatural force , or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate , I saw the ...
... fall into it . ' I directed my sight as I was ordered , and , whether or no the good genius strengthened it with any supernatural force , or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate , I saw the ...
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