The World of Man: Prose Passages, Chiefly from the Works of the Great Historians, Classical and English |
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... turn comes , must go down to the general underground abode , and get the habit of seeing in the dark . When you have acquired the habit , you will see ten thousand times better than the inhabitants of the den , and you will know what ...
... turn comes , must go down to the general underground abode , and get the habit of seeing in the dark . When you have acquired the habit , you will see ten thousand times better than the inhabitants of the den , and you will know what ...
Page 99
... turn to a history of commercial navigation ; of the quest of spices and metals , coffee and sugar , wool and hides ... turning West Indian planters : re- ligious bodies founding American states : the European world leaving off fighting ...
... turn to a history of commercial navigation ; of the quest of spices and metals , coffee and sugar , wool and hides ... turning West Indian planters : re- ligious bodies founding American states : the European world leaving off fighting ...
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... turn putrid and the teeth drop from their jaws . And as they told of these things , and named the souls who had died at sea , there rose a cry of lamentation , and widows in new garments fled weeping from the crowd . That night , the ...
... turn putrid and the teeth drop from their jaws . And as they told of these things , and named the souls who had died at sea , there rose a cry of lamentation , and widows in new garments fled weeping from the crowd . That night , the ...
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