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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... person , but that he was born upon one day , and died upon another ; the whole history of his life being ... persons mentioned in the battles of heroic poems , who have sounding names given them , for no other reason but that ...
... person , but that he was born upon one day , and died upon another ; the whole history of his life being ... persons mentioned in the battles of heroic poems , who have sounding names given them , for no other reason but that ...
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... person to be acquainted with them , he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him . There are ... persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blen- heim , or in the bosom of the ocean . I could not ...
... person to be acquainted with them , he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him . There are ... persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blen- heim , or in the bosom of the ocean . I could not ...
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... 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 man of humanity , as a person who makes use of indirect ...
... 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 man of humanity , as a person who makes use of indirect ...
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... persons , but their number was very small , that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches , but fell through one after another , being quite tired and spent with so long a walk . " I passed some time in the contemplation ...
... persons , but their number was very small , that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches , but fell through one after another , being quite tired and spent with so long a walk . " I passed some time in the contemplation ...
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... persons on trap - doors which did not seem to lie in their way , and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them . " The genius seeing me indulge myself on this melancholy pros- pect , told me I had dwelt long ...
... persons on trap - doors which did not seem to lie in their way , and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them . " The genius seeing me indulge myself on this melancholy pros- pect , told me I had dwelt long ...
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