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WHEN I am in a serious humor , I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place , and the use to which it is applied , with the solemnity of the building , and the condition of the people who lie in ...
WHEN I am in a serious humor , I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place , and the use to which it is applied , with the solemnity of the building , and the condition of the people who lie in ...
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“ There were indeed some 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 .
“ There were indeed some 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 .
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Then the Sun came out and shone in all his glory upon the traveler , who soon found it too hot to walk with his cloak on . Kindness effects more than Severity . BELLING THE CAT LONG ago , the Mice held a general council to consider what ...
Then the Sun came out and shone in all his glory upon the traveler , who soon found it too hot to walk with his cloak on . Kindness effects more than Severity . BELLING THE CAT LONG ago , the Mice held a general council to consider what ...
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THE JAY AND THE PEACOCK A JAY venturing into a yard where Peacocks used to walk , found there a number of feathers which had fallen from the Peaa cocks when they were moulting . He tied them all to his tail and strutted down towards the ...
THE JAY AND THE PEACOCK A JAY venturing into a yard where Peacocks used to walk , found there a number of feathers which had fallen from the Peaa cocks when they were moulting . He tied them all to his tail and strutted down towards the ...
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That the old priest , in his last days , became very much emaciated , that he walked about the streets like a mummy , that he gradually dried up , and finally blew away , was the meager and unsatisfactory result of the tourist's ...
That the old priest , in his last days , became very much emaciated , that he walked about the streets like a mummy , that he gradually dried up , and finally blew away , was the meager and unsatisfactory result of the tourist's ...
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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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