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... idea of travelling in the East , you asked me to send you an outline of the tour which I had made , in order that you might the better be able to choose a route for yourself . In answer to this request , I gave you a large French map ...
... idea of travelling in the East , you asked me to send you an outline of the tour which I had made , in order that you might the better be able to choose a route for yourself . In answer to this request , I gave you a large French map ...
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... idea of complying with your wish by a revival of my twice - abandoned attempt . I tried ; and the pleasure and confidence which I felt in speaking to you soon made my task so easy , and even amusing , that after a while ( though not in ...
... idea of complying with your wish by a revival of my twice - abandoned attempt . I tried ; and the pleasure and confidence which I felt in speaking to you soon made my task so easy , and even amusing , that after a while ( though not in ...
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... ideas of the country through which he has passed . His very selfishness - his habit of referring the whole external world to his own sensations - compels him , as it were , in his writings to observe the laws of perspective ; he tells ...
... ideas of the country through which he has passed . His very selfishness - his habit of referring the whole external world to his own sensations - compels him , as it were , in his writings to observe the laws of perspective ; he tells ...
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... ideas which are often invited by the excitement of a changing scene , but he is still conscious of being in a provisional state , and his mind is for ever recurring to the expected end of his journey ; his ordinary ways of thought have ...
... ideas which are often invited by the excitement of a changing scene , but he is still conscious of being in a provisional state , and his mind is for ever recurring to the expected end of his journey ; his ordinary ways of thought have ...
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... idea - an idea that his illness was partly affected . I have made a confession : this I hope You see that that I may hereafter look charitably upon the hard savage acts of peasants , and the cruelties of a " brutal " soldiery . God ...
... idea - an idea that his illness was partly affected . I have made a confession : this I hope You see that that I may hereafter look charitably upon the hard savage acts of peasants , and the cruelties of a " brutal " soldiery . God ...
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