The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 1 |
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... but up and stirring , - in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor or to devotion , —in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses , or not much tardier , to read good authors or cause them to be read , till the ...
... but up and stirring , - in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor or to devotion , —in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses , or not much tardier , to read good authors or cause them to be read , till the ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 1 The Works of Charles Sumner, Charles Sumner |
| Author | Charles Sumner |
| Publisher | Lee and Shepard, 1870 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Dec 2007 |
| ISBN | 0722297467, 9780722297469 |
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