Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 - Scandinavia |
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... person , and break an arm , or a leg , or head , why , one can only think that industry must go on , and the numerous surgeons of Stockholm ought to share in its results . I am too restless to do anything . I do not know what is before ...
... person , and break an arm , or a leg , or head , why , one can only think that industry must go on , and the numerous surgeons of Stockholm ought to share in its results . I am too restless to do anything . I do not know what is before ...
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... persons I usually see . " They make you a curtsey , " said an Englishman of rank , " worthy of a duchess . " I do not know if duchesses are famous for curt- seys , but I know that I have been watching a workman and a servant girl ...
... persons I usually see . " They make you a curtsey , " said an Englishman of rank , " worthy of a duchess . " I do not know if duchesses are famous for curt- seys , but I know that I have been watching a workman and a servant girl ...
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... persons , which render their hilarity entirely national , and by no means like French vivacity . Thus some Frenchman tells of a Swede who went to Paris , and fell in love with his landlady , who objected to him on the score of his not ...
... persons , which render their hilarity entirely national , and by no means like French vivacity . Thus some Frenchman tells of a Swede who went to Paris , and fell in love with his landlady , who objected to him on the score of his not ...
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... person , addressing them by name or or title , or use the familiar pronoun - the sign of love , friendship , or familiarity - thou . General acquaintances must always be addressed by the title , whatever title it be , whether of rank ...
... person , addressing them by name or or title , or use the familiar pronoun - the sign of love , friendship , or familiarity - thou . General acquaintances must always be addressed by the title , whatever title it be , whether of rank ...
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... persons who , you told me , wished to make my acquaintance . " " But you did not go to visit them ; you would not expect them to come first to you ? " " I did expect them to do so , " I answered . The good woman lifted up her hands ...
... persons who , you told me , wished to make my acquaintance . " " But you did not go to visit them ; you would not expect them to come first to you ? " " I did expect them to do so , " I answered . The good woman lifted up her hands ...
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Page 301 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 336 - For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.