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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Page 67
... strange instruments recalled to mind that display of cruel - looking mother - of - pearl - handled things which one sees in their velvet- lined cases at the elbow of a dentist . The artist was not at this time engaged on an original ...
... strange instruments recalled to mind that display of cruel - looking mother - of - pearl - handled things which one sees in their velvet- lined cases at the elbow of a dentist . The artist was not at this time engaged on an original ...
Page 70
... strange and complex in its arrange- ments is this remarkable system , that I have in several cases met with individuals who , after residing for years among the islands in the Pacific , and acquiring a considerable knowledge of the ...
... strange and complex in its arrange- ments is this remarkable system , that I have in several cases met with individuals who , after residing for years among the islands in the Pacific , and acquiring a considerable knowledge of the ...
Page 76
... strange conceit , as the poet has exclaimed in his scorn : " Oh , world diseased ! oh , race empirical ! Where fools are the fathers of every miracle ! " Now , when I was in my chamber , what saw I there but a dress of very costly blue ...
... strange conceit , as the poet has exclaimed in his scorn : " Oh , world diseased ! oh , race empirical ! Where fools are the fathers of every miracle ! " Now , when I was in my chamber , what saw I there but a dress of very costly blue ...
Page 83
... strange red and yellow - feathered bird that flew to the branch of a citron - tree opposite , with a ring in its beak ; and the bird was singing , and with every note the ring dropped from its bill , and it descended swiftly in an ...
... strange red and yellow - feathered bird that flew to the branch of a citron - tree opposite , with a ring in its beak ; and the bird was singing , and with every note the ring dropped from its bill , and it descended swiftly in an ...
Page 96
... Strange adventures , singular chances , could not fail to attend such an enterprise . To have survived the fearful destruction which swept off so many nobles , in not a few instances con- ferred a nobility of its own . A man's worth was ...
... Strange adventures , singular chances , could not fail to attend such an enterprise . To have survived the fearful destruction which swept off so many nobles , in not a few instances con- ferred a nobility of its own . A man's worth was ...
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