The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 3G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... kind housewives at morning , midday , eventide , were boiling their husbands ' kettles ; and ever a blue pillar rose up into the air , successively or simultaneously , from each of the nine , saying , as plainly as smoke could say ...
... kind housewives at morning , midday , eventide , were boiling their husbands ' kettles ; and ever a blue pillar rose up into the air , successively or simultaneously , from each of the nine , saying , as plainly as smoke could say ...
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... kind ? Only a torch for burning , no hammer for building ? Take our thanks , then , and thy- self away . - " Meanwhile what are antiquated Mythuses to me ? Or is the God present , felt in my own heart , a thing which Herr von Voltaire ...
... kind ? Only a torch for burning , no hammer for building ? Take our thanks , then , and thy- self away . - " Meanwhile what are antiquated Mythuses to me ? Or is the God present , felt in my own heart , a thing which Herr von Voltaire ...
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... kind of thing : Odin , Luther , Johnson , Burns ; I hope to make it appear that these are all originally of one stuff ; that only by the world's reception of them , and the shapes they assume , are they so immeasurably diverse . 54 ...
... kind of thing : Odin , Luther , Johnson , Burns ; I hope to make it appear that these are all originally of one stuff ; that only by the world's reception of them , and the shapes they assume , are they so immeasurably diverse . 54 ...
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... kind he cannot speak of , is not conscious of : nay , I suppose , he is conscious rather of insincerity ; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day ? No , the Great Man does not boast himself sincere , far from ...
... kind he cannot speak of , is not conscious of : nay , I suppose , he is conscious rather of insincerity ; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day ? No , the Great Man does not boast himself sincere , far from ...
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... kind ; nay , of all kinds ? Cotton can be spun and sold , Lancashire operatives can be got to spin it , and at length one has the woven webs and sells them , by following Nature's regulations in that matter : by not following Nature's ...
... kind ; nay , of all kinds ? Cotton can be spun and sold , Lancashire operatives can be got to spin it , and at length one has the woven webs and sells them , by following Nature's regulations in that matter : by not following Nature's ...
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