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They lived in a rude age , when newspapers and pamphlets were usually coarse and vulgar ; but the Tatler and the Spectator were prepared by them for intelligent and refined women , well for men . VISIT TO WESTMINSTER ABBEY Pallida mors ...
They lived in a rude age , when newspapers and pamphlets were usually coarse and vulgar ; but the Tatler and the Spectator were prepared by them for intelligent and refined women , well for men . VISIT TO WESTMINSTER ABBEY Pallida mors ...
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Hecatæus , the Greek historian and geographer , who lived more than five hundred years before Christ , had not enlarged it much . He was , to be sure , a voyager on the Mediterranean , and had an idea of the extent of Italy .
Hecatæus , the Greek historian and geographer , who lived more than five hundred years before Christ , had not enlarged it much . He was , to be sure , a voyager on the Mediterranean , and had an idea of the extent of Italy .
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In the neighborhood of Edinburgh , where he lived , was an extensive region of trap - rock , – that is , of igneous rock , which had forced itself through the stratified deposits , sometimes spreading in a continuous sheet over large ...
In the neighborhood of Edinburgh , where he lived , was an extensive region of trap - rock , – that is , of igneous rock , which had forced itself through the stratified deposits , sometimes spreading in a continuous sheet over large ...
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For years he lived the life of an itinerant geologist . With a shirt and a pair of stockings in his pocket , and a geological hammer in his hand , he traveled all over Europe on foot . The results of his foot journey to Scandinavia were ...
For years he lived the life of an itinerant geologist . With a shirt and a pair of stockings in his pocket , and a geological hammer in his hand , he traveled all over Europe on foot . The results of his foot journey to Scandinavia were ...
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Suddenly there came a great Water Rat , which lived under the drain . “ Have you a passport ? " said the Rat . “ Give me your passport . ” But the Tin Soldier kept silence , and held his musket tighter than ever .
Suddenly there came a great Water Rat , which lived under the drain . “ Have you a passport ? " said the Rat . “ Give me your passport . ” But the Tin Soldier kept silence , and held his musket tighter than ever .
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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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