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... hands . Professor Goodrich's edition of 1847 is not much more than enlarged and amended , but other revisions since have so much novelty of plan as to be described as distinct works . " .... " The American revised Webster's Dictionary ...
... hands . Professor Goodrich's edition of 1847 is not much more than enlarged and amended , but other revisions since have so much novelty of plan as to be described as distinct works . " .... " The American revised Webster's Dictionary ...
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... hand- coloured plates of British plants which encumber these volumes with riches , the reader cannot help being struck with the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with careless step . We cannot dwell upon many of ...
... hand- coloured plates of British plants which encumber these volumes with riches , the reader cannot help being struck with the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with careless step . We cannot dwell upon many of ...
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... hands of millions , who know no common principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of ...
... hands of millions , who know no common principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of ...
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... hand to this scene of misery and destruction . His kingdom was rent and divided ; which served to employ the more distinct parts to tear each other to pieces , and bury the whole in blood and slaughter . The kings of Syria and of Egypt ...
... hand to this scene of misery and destruction . His kingdom was rent and divided ; which served to employ the more distinct parts to tear each other to pieces , and bury the whole in blood and slaughter . The kings of Syria and of Egypt ...
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... hand , and to the banks of the Loire , or farther , on the other ; destroying all the proud and curious monuments of human art , that not even the memory might seem to survive of the former inhabitants . What has been done since , and ...
... hand , and to the banks of the Loire , or farther , on the other ; destroying all the proud and curious monuments of human art , that not even the memory might seem to survive of the former inhabitants . What has been done since , and ...
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