Common-school Literature, English and American: With Several Hundred Extracts to be MemorizedContains a short sketch about Eugene Field and his work (p. 123-124). |
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... volumes of Addison . III . This mournful truth is everywhere confessed , Slow rises worth by poverty depressed . IV . Each change of many - colored life he drew , Exhausted worlds and then imagined new ; Existence saw him spurn her ...
... volumes of Addison . III . This mournful truth is everywhere confessed , Slow rises worth by poverty depressed . IV . Each change of many - colored life he drew , Exhausted worlds and then imagined new ; Existence saw him spurn her ...
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... volumes , from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the expulsion of James II . , known as the Revolution of 1688 . Upon its completion , in 1762 , it was universally recognized as the greatest historical work that had ever been written in ...
... volumes , from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the expulsion of James II . , known as the Revolution of 1688 . Upon its completion , in 1762 , it was universally recognized as the greatest historical work that had ever been written in ...
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... volume of his immortal history came out in 1776 , and the last in 1787 - after an interval of eleven years . Its success was immediate and immense , and for more than a hundred years it has retained its popularity , and still stands ...
... volume of his immortal history came out in 1776 , and the last in 1787 - after an interval of eleven years . Its success was immediate and immense , and for more than a hundred years it has retained its popularity , and still stands ...
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... volumes . THEOLOGICAL AND METAPHYSICAL . THOMAS REID , D. D. ( 1710-1796 ) , a distinguished Scotch metaphysician , author of An Inquiry into the Human Mind , etc. WM . PALEY , D. D. ( 1743-1805 ) , author of Natural Theology , Hora ...
... volumes . THEOLOGICAL AND METAPHYSICAL . THOMAS REID , D. D. ( 1710-1796 ) , a distinguished Scotch metaphysician , author of An Inquiry into the Human Mind , etc. WM . PALEY , D. D. ( 1743-1805 ) , author of Natural Theology , Hora ...
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... volumes . About nine years later he published his Constitutional History of Eng- land , 2 vols . , and after an interval of ten years brought out his Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th , 16th , and 17th Centuries , 4 ...
... volumes . About nine years later he published his Constitutional History of Eng- land , 2 vols . , and after an interval of ten years brought out his Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th , 16th , and 17th Centuries , 4 ...
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