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Page 14
And , to speak the truth , I do very much apprehend , by some of the last winter's productions , which had their sets of admirers , that our posterity will in a few years degenerate into a race of punsters ; at least , a man may be very ...
And , to speak the truth , I do very much apprehend , by some of the last winter's productions , which had their sets of admirers , that our posterity will in a few years degenerate into a race of punsters ; at least , a man may be very ...
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I do not speak this out of any spirit of party . There is a most crying dullness on both sides . I have seen tory acrostics and whig anagrams , and do not quarrel with either of them because they are whigs or tories , but because they ...
I do not speak this out of any spirit of party . There is a most crying dullness on both sides . I have seen tory acrostics and whig anagrams , and do not quarrel with either of them because they are whigs or tories , but because they ...
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But while I speak of the reconstructive labors of the geologist with so much confidence , because to my mind they reveal an intelligible coherence in the whole physical history of the world , yet I am well aware that there are many and ...
But while I speak of the reconstructive labors of the geologist with so much confidence , because to my mind they reveal an intelligible coherence in the whole physical history of the world , yet I am well aware that there are many and ...
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Before the judgment day , And stand with glory wrapt around On the hills he never trod , And speak of the strife that won our life , With the Incarnate Son of God . O lonely grave in Moab's land ! O dark Beth - Peor's hill !
Before the judgment day , And stand with glory wrapt around On the hills he never trod , And speak of the strife that won our life , With the Incarnate Son of God . O lonely grave in Moab's land ! O dark Beth - Peor's hill !
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The nutcracker threw somersaults , and the pencil amused itself on the table : there was so much noise that the canary woke up , and began to speak too , and even in verse . The only two who did not stir from their places were the Tin ...
The nutcracker threw somersaults , and the pencil amused itself on the table : there was so much noise that the canary woke up , and began to speak too , and even in verse . The only two who did not stir from their places were the Tin ...
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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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