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Tales of Mystery, Imagination, & Humour: And Poems

Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 pages
...thousand times greater. Circumstances, and a certain bias of mind, have led me to take interest in such riddles, and it may well be doubted whether human...to the mere difficulty of developing their import. " And you really solved it ?" " In the present case—indeed in all cases of secret writing—the first...
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Notes and Queries

Questions and answers - 1855 - 1080 pages
...your readers know who he was — remarks (in The Oold-Bug, and on the subject of secret writing), " It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can...ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve." Taking up recently [* For notices of John Hope, see "N. & Q.," Vol. v., p. 582., and Vol. vi., pp....
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The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: Tales

Edgar Allan Poe - 1859 - 558 pages
...thousand times greater. Circumstances, and a certain bias of mind, have led me to take interest in such riddles, and it may well be doubted whether human...which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, rewive. In fact, having once established connected and legible characters, I scarcely gave a thought...
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The works of Edgar Allan Poe [with a mem. by R.W. Griswold].

Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 pages
...thousand times greater. Circumstances, and a certain bias of mind, have led me to take interest in such riddles, and it may well be doubted whether human...scarcely gave a thought to the mere difficulty of de?eloping their import. v " In the present case — indeed in all cases of secret writing — the...
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1

Edgar Allan Poe - 1871 - 556 pages
...thousand times greater. Circumstances, and a certain bias of mind, have led me to take interest in such riddles, and it may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma of th« kind which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. In fact, having once established...
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Works, Volume 1

Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 618 pages
...thousand times greater. Circumstances, and a certain bias of mind, have led me to take interest in such riddles, and it may well be doubted whether human...characters, I scarcely gave a thought to the mere difficully of developing thrir import. " 1n. the present case — indeed in all cases of secret writing...
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The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe - 1895 - 372 pages
...thousand times greater. Circumstances, and a certain bias of mind, have led me to take interest in such riddles, and it may well be doubted whether human...— indeed in all cases of secret writing — the question regards the language of the cipher ; for the principles of solution, so far, especially, as...
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The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Other Poems and Tales

Edgar Allan Poe - 1898 - 228 pages
...bias of mind, have led me to take interest in such riddles, and it may well be doubted whether luuiian ingenuity can construct an enigma of the kind which...thought to the mere difficulty of developing their import.1 " In the present case — indeed, in all cases of secret writing — the first question regards...
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Literature: A Fifth Reader

Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - Readers - 1901 - 526 pages
...times greater. Circumstances and a certain bias of mind have led me to take interest in such riddles. Having once established connected and legible characters,...to the mere difficulty of developing their import." money : the treasure which they had found. Captain Kidd was a real character. All along the Atlantic...
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The Hawthorne Readers, Book 5

Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 pages
...times greater. Circumstances and a certain bias of mind have led me to take interest in such riddles. Having once established connected and legible characters,...to the mere difficulty of developing their import." money: the treasure which they had found. Captain Kidd was a real character. All along the Atlantic...
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