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Moreover , what a difference exists between a book , borrowed for brief perusal from a colossal storehouse of such printed matter , and the loved private volumes which adorn the home , and can be constantly referred to !
Moreover , what a difference exists between a book , borrowed for brief perusal from a colossal storehouse of such printed matter , and the loved private volumes which adorn the home , and can be constantly referred to !
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... were crumbled amongst one another , and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty , strength , and youth , with old age , weakness , and deformity , lay undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of matter .
... were crumbled amongst one another , and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty , strength , and youth , with old age , weakness , and deformity , lay undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of matter .
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He made many a spring and a jump after the luscious prize ; but , failing in all his attempts , he muttered as he retreated , “ Well ! what does it matter ! The Grapes are sour ! ” THE WOLF AND THE LAMB As a Wolf was lapping at the head ...
He made many a spring and a jump after the luscious prize ; but , failing in all his attempts , he muttered as he retreated , “ Well ! what does it matter ! The Grapes are sour ! ” THE WOLF AND THE LAMB As a Wolf was lapping at the head ...
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... beware again that thou take no part therein ; for this also is the snare of Venus , whereby she would cause thee to cast away one at least of those cakes thou bearest in thy hands . And think not that a slight matter ; for the loss ...
... beware again that thou take no part therein ; for this also is the snare of Venus , whereby she would cause thee to cast away one at least of those cakes thou bearest in thy hands . And think not that a slight matter ; for the loss ...
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she came from the lady Zobeide , and that the Caliph and his wife had quarreled about the matter . He therefore stretched himself out as if dead , and Nouzatalfuad sat down at his head , and disheveled her hair , and mourned for him ...
she came from the lady Zobeide , and that the Caliph and his wife had quarreled about the matter . He therefore stretched himself out as if dead , and Nouzatalfuad sat down at his head , and disheveled her hair , and mourned for him ...
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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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