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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... 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 believe that works of genius were not written to be analyzed , but to ...
... 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 believe that works of genius were not written to be analyzed , but to ...
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... less distinguished for their intel- lectual brilliancy than for a tender sentiment , which , often after centuries , still moves the heart , and stirs its holiest emotions . There is in all good writing worthy of the name a touch of ...
... less distinguished for their intel- lectual brilliancy than for a tender sentiment , which , often after centuries , still moves the heart , and stirs its holiest emotions . There is in all good writing worthy of the name a touch of ...
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... less perfect , according as they were founded in truth . It is no wonder , therefore , that even such authors as Isocrates , Plato , and Cicero , should have such little blemishes as are not to be met with in authors of a much inferior ...
... less perfect , according as they were founded in truth . It is no wonder , therefore , that even such authors as Isocrates , Plato , and Cicero , should have such little blemishes as are not to be met with in authors of a much inferior ...
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... less Lamb and tore her to pieces . 22 A tyrant never wants a plea . And they have little chance of resisting the injustice of the powerful whose only weapons are innocence and reason . THE LION AND THE MOUSE A LION was sleeping in his ...
... less Lamb and tore her to pieces . 22 A tyrant never wants a plea . And they have little chance of resisting the injustice of the powerful whose only weapons are innocence and reason . THE LION AND THE MOUSE A LION was sleeping in his ...
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... less flexibility of the de- posits , the direction of the pressure , would give rise to an infinite variety in the results ; accordingly , instead of the long , even arches , such as characterize the earlier upheavals of the Alle ...
... less flexibility of the de- posits , the direction of the pressure , would give rise to an infinite variety in the results ; accordingly , instead of the long , even arches , such as characterize the earlier upheavals of the Alle ...
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