Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 - Scandinavia |
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... replied that he only knew they were now for sale on his counter . I do not think that this system really benefits home manufacture ; few lands are more backward in the mechanical , as well as in the fine arts , than Sweden is . Foreign ...
... replied that he only knew they were now for sale on his counter . I do not think that this system really benefits home manufacture ; few lands are more backward in the mechanical , as well as in the fine arts , than Sweden is . Foreign ...
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... replied , " I am making myself lively . " The story , however , tells better in French . I do not know whether a facility in obtaining divorce renders married life more generally tran- quil or not ; it does not seem to render matri ...
... replied , " I am making myself lively . " The story , however , tells better in French . I do not know whether a facility in obtaining divorce renders married life more generally tran- quil or not ; it does not seem to render matri ...
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... replied ; " it means the Highly Noble . " I have still a letter of introduction to a country doctor in Sweden , which bears on the envelope just fourteen titles . The pay of a Lieutenant in the Royal Guards is , I think , less than that ...
... replied ; " it means the Highly Noble . " I have still a letter of introduction to a country doctor in Sweden , which bears on the envelope just fourteen titles . The pay of a Lieutenant in the Royal Guards is , I think , less than that ...
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... replied . " There is only One who can see that the inside of the cup and platter are not what the outside appear ; therefore , as long as a ceremonial is in itself good , we have no right to complain that it is a ceremonial merely ...
... replied . " There is only One who can see that the inside of the cup and platter are not what the outside appear ; therefore , as long as a ceremonial is in itself good , we have no right to complain that it is a ceremonial merely ...
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... replied that I would rather the Government left it as it was ; I did not like the noise of workmen . " Oh ! " said Grefven , " that will go quickly on , and you shall be content when the view is open . " " View ! " I repeated , rather ...
... replied that I would rather the Government left it as it was ; I did not like the noise of workmen . " Oh ! " said Grefven , " that will go quickly on , and you shall be content when the view is open . " " View ! " I repeated , rather ...
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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.