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It is , however , possible that an anthology , less comprehensive in its scope and therefore less voluminous and didactic , will meet a genuine want among the rank and file of book lovers and readers , who still ...
It is , however , possible that an anthology , less comprehensive in its scope and therefore less voluminous and didactic , will meet a genuine want among the rank and file of book lovers and readers , who still ...
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Another wish of the compiler of this work has been to offer some selections , less distinguished for their intellectual brilliancy than for a tender sentiment , which , often after centuries , still moves the heart , and stirs its ...
Another wish of the compiler of this work has been to offer some selections , less distinguished for their intellectual brilliancy than for a tender sentiment , which , often after centuries , still moves the heart , and stirs its ...
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It was one of the employments of these secondary authors to distinguish the several kinds of wit by terms of art , and to consider them as more or less perfect , according as they were founded in truth .
It was one of the employments of these secondary authors to distinguish the several kinds of wit by terms of art , and to consider them as more or less perfect , according as they were founded in truth .
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extensive a tract could not be equal everywhere ; the various thicknesses of the crust , the greater or less flexibility of the deposits , the direction of the pressure , would give rise to an infinite variety in the results ...
extensive a tract could not be equal everywhere ; the various thicknesses of the crust , the greater or less flexibility of the deposits , the direction of the pressure , would give rise to an infinite variety in the results ...
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It is not , however , by rents in mountain - chains alone , or by depressions between them , that valleys are produced ; they are often due to the unequal hardness of the beds raised , and to their greater or less liability to be worn ...
It is not , however , by rents in mountain - chains alone , or by depressions between them , that valleys are produced ; they are often due to the unequal hardness of the beds raised , and to their greater or less liability to be worn ...
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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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