American Quarterly Review, Volume 21Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 - Serial publications |
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Page 19
... persons we before referred to , these confer no benefit . They leave their hearts and feelings untouched , and their heads as really vacant as before - for the superficial information these works may impart is worse than entire ...
... persons we before referred to , these confer no benefit . They leave their hearts and feelings untouched , and their heads as really vacant as before - for the superficial information these works may impart is worse than entire ...
Page 20
... of a different , probably of a severer , description , is offered in the person of another young girl whom accident had disabled in infancy , and who was doomed to pass through a lengthened life , 20 [ March , Miss Sedgwick .
... of a different , probably of a severer , description , is offered in the person of another young girl whom accident had disabled in infancy , and who was doomed to pass through a lengthened life , 20 [ March , Miss Sedgwick .
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... persons as the inmates of Aikin's house . We shall content ourselves with a single additional extract , in which the mere rich man's charities are exemplified . It follows a statement of the active charity bestowed by Aikin , his wife ...
... persons as the inmates of Aikin's house . We shall content ourselves with a single additional extract , in which the mere rich man's charities are exemplified . It follows a statement of the active charity bestowed by Aikin , his wife ...
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... person . The inventor of poleyns was the English knight Robert le Cornu . " Vol . I. pp . 25 , 26 . A word about the ladies : - " The gentlewomen wore very fine linen next to the skin . They were dressed in high tunics covering the ...
... person . The inventor of poleyns was the English knight Robert le Cornu . " Vol . I. pp . 25 , 26 . A word about the ladies : - " The gentlewomen wore very fine linen next to the skin . They were dressed in high tunics covering the ...
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... persons of all classes , from the heretic , flayed and burned alive , to adulterers bound together naked and led in public through the crowd : the complaisant judge , substituting an inno- cent prisoner , instead of the wealthy murderer ...
... persons of all classes , from the heretic , flayed and burned alive , to adulterers bound together naked and led in public through the crowd : the complaisant judge , substituting an inno- cent prisoner , instead of the wealthy murderer ...
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