The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 9G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... reason was that he despised that kind of bodily train- ing ; he would not have condescended to give up his social evenings , at which he drank freely ; and above all he so delighted in hunting that he felt no interest in athletic ...
... reason was that he despised that kind of bodily train- ing ; he would not have condescended to give up his social evenings , at which he drank freely ; and above all he so delighted in hunting that he felt no interest in athletic ...
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... reasons on their side , feel that the king's genius in fighting battles was not greater than his genius in founding cities , not merely as outposts , but as marts , by which commerce and culture should spread through the world . He is ...
... reasons on their side , feel that the king's genius in fighting battles was not greater than his genius in founding cities , not merely as outposts , but as marts , by which commerce and culture should spread through the world . He is ...
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... reason the earth and the sea , that are so great and so heavy , should fall to the firmament ; but that may not be , and there- fore saith our Lord God , " He hangeth the earth upon nothing . ' And although it be possible so to go all ...
... reason the earth and the sea , that are so great and so heavy , should fall to the firmament ; but that may not be , and there- fore saith our Lord God , " He hangeth the earth upon nothing . ' And although it be possible so to go all ...
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... reason , Friar Fazio would not have failed to urge opposing arguments ; and no one knows how and when the discussion would have come to an end ; but at the sound of these weighty words of a mysterious signification , and so resolutely ...
... reason , Friar Fazio would not have failed to urge opposing arguments ; and no one knows how and when the discussion would have come to an end ; but at the sound of these weighty words of a mysterious signification , and so resolutely ...
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... reason why he tempts us thus ? Meph . " Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris . " Faust . Why , have you any pain that tortures others ? Meph . As great as have the human souls of men . But tell me , Faustus , shall I have thy soul ...
... reason why he tempts us thus ? Meph . " Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris . " Faust . Why , have you any pain that tortures others ? Meph . As great as have the human souls of men . But tell me , Faustus , shall I have thy soul ...
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