The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 3M. Bancroft, J. Wiley, and G. and C. and H. Carvill, 1834 - American literature |
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... appeared a being of supernatural loveliness . Her small white feet , unsandalled , glided over the rich carpet with a grace , which a slight degree of fancy might have deemed the motion peculiar to the inhabitants of another world . For ...
... appeared a being of supernatural loveliness . Her small white feet , unsandalled , glided over the rich carpet with a grace , which a slight degree of fancy might have deemed the motion peculiar to the inhabitants of another world . For ...
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... appearance of reverence for religion derogatory to their character , that piety and sprightliness cannot agree together , that they will incur the sneers of their contemporaries , be shunned for their solemnity , despised for what ...
... appearance of reverence for religion derogatory to their character , that piety and sprightliness cannot agree together , that they will incur the sneers of their contemporaries , be shunned for their solemnity , despised for what ...
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... appearance , whilst it ennobles the character and enriches the soul . Mr. Philip has taken up this part of his argument in a masterly manner , and has shown himself to be a liberal thinker in the best sense of the word . Nothing can be ...
... appearance , whilst it ennobles the character and enriches the soul . Mr. Philip has taken up this part of his argument in a masterly manner , and has shown himself to be a liberal thinker in the best sense of the word . Nothing can be ...
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... appearance of the vessel . I had been told she was a small craft , and that it would be better for me to meet my hardships all at once , and here I was , in a vessel that seemed to me a monster . Eleven guns on a side - a long deck ...
... appearance of the vessel . I had been told she was a small craft , and that it would be better for me to meet my hardships all at once , and here I was , in a vessel that seemed to me a monster . Eleven guns on a side - a long deck ...
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... appearance of unity , or identity , is not most frequently or most per- fectly given by a constant adherence to the same line of thought , by a con- tinual harping on the same string ; but by a number of slight , but acccu- rate touches ...
... appearance of unity , or identity , is not most frequently or most per- fectly given by a constant adherence to the same line of thought , by a con- tinual harping on the same string ; but by a number of slight , but acccu- rate touches ...
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