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... vessel was to meet us , and took up our quarters at the best hotel . I need not dwell on a description of this place , for I presume that most of my readers are acquainted with the agreeables and disagreeables of English seaport towns ...
... vessel was to meet us , and took up our quarters at the best hotel . I need not dwell on a description of this place , for I presume that most of my readers are acquainted with the agreeables and disagreeables of English seaport towns ...
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... vessel was to meet us , and took up our quarters at the best hotel . I need not dwell on a description of this place , for I presume that most of uy readers are acquainted with the agreeables and Cangrecables of English seaport towns ...
... vessel was to meet us , and took up our quarters at the best hotel . I need not dwell on a description of this place , for I presume that most of uy readers are acquainted with the agreeables and Cangrecables of English seaport towns ...
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... vessel ; when our luggage , had it been properly managed , would certainly not have filled a single boat : " tel est le monde ; " that is to say , the world in general , but more especially that part of it yclept Gravesend : - O tempora ...
... vessel ; when our luggage , had it been properly managed , would certainly not have filled a single boat : " tel est le monde ; " that is to say , the world in general , but more especially that part of it yclept Gravesend : - O tempora ...
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... vessel , which the vio- lence of the winds , or the fury of the waves , may dash into a thousand pieces , and sever , by one great and overwhelming stroke , the ties of kindred , of friend- ship , and of love . Influenced by such ...
... vessel , which the vio- lence of the winds , or the fury of the waves , may dash into a thousand pieces , and sever , by one great and overwhelming stroke , the ties of kindred , of friend- ship , and of love . Influenced by such ...
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... vessel affects us very differently ; it enlivens and " makes me merry , while you are melancholy and " sad : peut - être vous avez laissé quelque petite " maîtresse , and are distressed at the tender parting , " ( here he smiled ...
... vessel affects us very differently ; it enlivens and " makes me merry , while you are melancholy and " sad : peut - être vous avez laissé quelque petite " maîtresse , and are distressed at the tender parting , " ( here he smiled ...
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