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... called the " exact man . " Another help is the selection of material on the basis of interest , when the occasion is ripe . The time when the birds are on the wing from their winter home , when the cocoons are opening or the buds are ...
... called the " exact man . " Another help is the selection of material on the basis of interest , when the occasion is ripe . The time when the birds are on the wing from their winter home , when the cocoons are opening or the buds are ...
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... called Peter , and here is a picture of him . See what long legs he has , and a white body and black wings , and he catches all the frogs and snails , and eats them , and when he is cross , he opens his long bill and makes such a ...
... called Peter , and here is a picture of him . See what long legs he has , and a white body and black wings , and he catches all the frogs and snails , and eats them , and when he is cross , he opens his long bill and makes such a ...
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... called them heralds of morn ; but my mistress said , " Don't you wish you may get it ? " and boxed my ears . I wasn't taken to walk on account of its being wet . but a man for " burial rate " ; and my mistress gave him a rowing ...
... called them heralds of morn ; but my mistress said , " Don't you wish you may get it ? " and boxed my ears . I wasn't taken to walk on account of its being wet . but a man for " burial rate " ; and my mistress gave him a rowing ...
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... called ; so ever fresh and green , and warm are all the inventions of men , and assemblies of men in this great city . I should certainly have laughed with dear Joanna . Give my kindest love , and my sister's , to D. and yourself ; and ...
... called ; so ever fresh and green , and warm are all the inventions of men , and assemblies of men in this great city . I should certainly have laughed with dear Joanna . Give my kindest love , and my sister's , to D. and yourself ; and ...
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... little lake , half a mile wide and more , called Walden Pond - a place to which my feet have for years been accus- tomed to bring me once or twice a week at all sea- sons . My lot , to be sure , is 80 LETTERS AND LETTER WRITING.
... little lake , half a mile wide and more , called Walden Pond - a place to which my feet have for years been accus- tomed to bring me once or twice a week at all sea- sons . My lot , to be sure , is 80 LETTERS AND LETTER WRITING.
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Page 99 - I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
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Page 63 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind...
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