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... letter from Carlyle - Demoralizing literature - Social progress -A worthy use of artillery - Beneficent capital - Anecdotes- The Crimean campaign - A public scandal - The Victoria Cross • PAGE I II The progress of invention - The late ...
... letter from Carlyle - Demoralizing literature - Social progress -A worthy use of artillery - Beneficent capital - Anecdotes- The Crimean campaign - A public scandal - The Victoria Cross • PAGE I II The progress of invention - The late ...
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... Letters from Mark Lemon and Dickens — Tolerated mendicity- The London police in its early days and now - Impostors - Begging letters -A curious specimen - London rivers - The Lord Mayor's barge - London bridge and Free Trade - The ...
... Letters from Mark Lemon and Dickens — Tolerated mendicity- The London police in its early days and now - Impostors - Begging letters -A curious specimen - London rivers - The Lord Mayor's barge - London bridge and Free Trade - The ...
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... letter from Carlyle- Demoralizing literature - Social progress - A worthy use of artillery— Beneficent capital - Anecdotes - The Crimean campaign - A public scandal - The Victoria Cross T O deplore change and disparage the present has ...
... letter from Carlyle- Demoralizing literature - Social progress - A worthy use of artillery— Beneficent capital - Anecdotes - The Crimean campaign - A public scandal - The Victoria Cross T O deplore change and disparage the present has ...
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... letter by Anthony Trollope made a strong appeal on behalf of the North in America . It also contained the first of a series of letters from Pitt Crawley , Bart . , to his nephew Pitt Crawley about to enter Parliament - this was the work ...
... letter by Anthony Trollope made a strong appeal on behalf of the North in America . It also contained the first of a series of letters from Pitt Crawley , Bart . , to his nephew Pitt Crawley about to enter Parliament - this was the work ...
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... letter . DEAR P - Not having anything of my own which I could contribute ( as is my wish and duty ) to this pious Adventure of yours , and not being able in these hot busy days to get anything ready , I decide to offer you a bit of an ...
... letter . DEAR P - Not having anything of my own which I could contribute ( as is my wish and duty ) to this pious Adventure of yours , and not being able in these hot busy days to get anything ready , I decide to offer you a bit of an ...
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Page 29 - Hope (Anthony). A MAN OF MARK. A CHANGE OF AIR. THE CHRONICLES OF COUNT ANTONIO. PHROSO. THE DOLLY DIALOGUES. Hornung (EW).
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