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Half the earnings are laid aside for the prisoner , and , on his release , transmitted
to the maire of the town where he intends to settle , and carry on the trade he has
learned in the bagne , for every convict is bound to learn one . What results ...
Half the earnings are laid aside for the prisoner , and , on his release , transmitted
to the maire of the town where he intends to settle , and carry on the trade he has
learned in the bagne , for every convict is bound to learn one . What results ...
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Hence we think that Louis Napoleon has fully carried out his designs , and is
prepared , at any moment , to try a fall with us for the supremacy of the ocean .
The only way to prevent it is increased activity in our own arsenals . And that such
will ...
Hence we think that Louis Napoleon has fully carried out his designs , and is
prepared , at any moment , to try a fall with us for the supremacy of the ocean .
The only way to prevent it is increased activity in our own arsenals . And that such
will ...
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The girl who first enters the waggon takes the first place ; then comes the boy ,
with his master ' s bundle so full of stolen goods that a horse can scarce carry it .
The girl then sits down on it , and others press in . If , then , a soldier ' s wife finds
...
The girl who first enters the waggon takes the first place ; then comes the boy ,
with his master ' s bundle so full of stolen goods that a horse can scarce carry it .
The girl then sits down on it , and others press in . If , then , a soldier ' s wife finds
...
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A sensible soldier avoids quarrelling and lighting when he can , so that he may
carry his skin uninjured , if possible , into action . But the man who knowingly
injures his health must listen to ridicule , and is of no use to an army . Such a
guest ...
A sensible soldier avoids quarrelling and lighting when he can , so that he may
carry his skin uninjured , if possible , into action . But the man who knowingly
injures his health must listen to ridicule , and is of no use to an army . Such a
guest ...
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At other times the peasants would march on other villages , and carry off what the
troopers had left behind as too hot or too ... the monastery of Banz about two bells
in the latter chapel , which a Swedish colonel carried off and sold to the town .
At other times the peasants would march on other villages , and carry off what the
troopers had left behind as too hot or too ... the monastery of Banz about two bells
in the latter chapel , which a Swedish colonel carried off and sold to the town .
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Page 158 - And she hath watched Many a nightingale perch giddily On blossomy twig still swinging from the breeze, And to that motion tune his wanton song Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head.
Page 153 - But first, and chiefest, with thee bring, Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song...
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