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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... true that no selection can be perfect , and that no single choice is faultless . Yet , though opinions differ as to the relative value of much that has been chosen or omitted here , it may be claimed with confidence that nothing ...
... true that no selection can be perfect , and that no single choice is faultless . Yet , though opinions differ as to the relative value of much that has been chosen or omitted here , it may be claimed with confidence that nothing ...
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... true wit by any of the ancient authors , except Quintilian and Longinus . But when this distinction was once settled , it was very natural for all men of sense to agree in it . As for the revival of this false wit , it happened about ...
... true wit by any of the ancient authors , except Quintilian and Longinus . But when this distinction was once settled , it was very natural for all men of sense to agree in it . As for the revival of this false wit , it happened about ...
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... true ; but if it vanishes in the experiment , you may conclude it to have been a pun . In short , one may say of a pun , as the countryman described his nightingale , that it is vox et praeterea nihil , " a sound , and noth- ing but a ...
... true ; but if it vanishes in the experiment , you may conclude it to have been a pun . In short , one may say of a pun , as the countryman described his nightingale , that it is vox et praeterea nihil , " a sound , and noth- ing but a ...
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... true to his appointment , and the dinner was ordered forthwith ; but when it was served up , he found to his dismay that it was contained in a narrow - necked vessel , down which the Stork readily thrust her long neck and bill , while ...
... true to his appointment , and the dinner was ordered forthwith ; but when it was served up , he found to his dismay that it was contained in a narrow - necked vessel , down which the Stork readily thrust her long neck and bill , while ...
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... true as far as they went ; and as the ancient geographers were laying the foundation for all our modern knowledge of the present conformation of the globe , so are the geologists of the nineteenth century preparing the ground for future ...
... true as far as they went ; and as the ancient geographers were laying the foundation for all our modern knowledge of the present conformation of the globe , so are the geologists of the nineteenth century preparing the ground for future ...
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