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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... old and testy · - age's common fault - And , were not this enough to lame swift justice , There's an old law in Arragon , my liege , That in our courts father and son shall not Be heard in evidence against each other ; In which ...
... old and testy · - age's common fault - And , were not this enough to lame swift justice , There's an old law in Arragon , my liege , That in our courts father and son shall not Be heard in evidence against each other ; In which ...
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... as we did , was that what we can call perfect ? The most precious gift that Heaven can give to the Earth ; a man of " genius " as we ... age , difficult to do well in any age . Indeed , the heart of the whole business of the age , one may say ...
... as we did , was that what we can call perfect ? The most precious gift that Heaven can give to the Earth ; a man of " genius " as we ... age , difficult to do well in any age . Indeed , the heart of the whole business of the age , one may say ...
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... as we . A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever ... Age of Skepticism ; they indicate the saddest spiritual paralysis , and mere death - life of the souls of men : more ...
... as we . A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever ... Age of Skepticism ; they indicate the saddest spiritual paralysis , and mere death - life of the souls of men : more ...
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... age put an end to that much honored but much abused old - time custom , and won for itself immortal fame . It is related that when the king of Spain saw a man at a distance convulsed with laughter , he exclaimed , " He is either a ...
... age put an end to that much honored but much abused old - time custom , and won for itself immortal fame . It is related that when the king of Spain saw a man at a distance convulsed with laughter , he exclaimed , " He is either a ...
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... old buckler , a lean horse , and a coursing greyhound . Soup , composed of somewhat more mutton than beef , the ... age of our gentleman bor- dered upon fifty years : he was of a strong constitution , spare- bodied , of a meager visage ...
... old buckler , a lean horse , and a coursing greyhound . Soup , composed of somewhat more mutton than beef , the ... age of our gentleman bor- dered upon fifty years : he was of a strong constitution , spare- bodied , of a meager visage ...
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