Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 - Scandinavia |
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... whole year - provided it is not known to have gone to sea - the two who were made one can be made two again . In fact it would be almost worth while to be married in Sweden to prove how very easily one can be divorced . The rage for ...
... whole year - provided it is not known to have gone to sea - the two who were made one can be made two again . In fact it would be almost worth while to be married in Sweden to prove how very easily one can be divorced . The rage for ...
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... whole of this busy month had been as yet a dreary one to me . Had I left Stockholm then , I should have left it without taking with me many pleasant recollections . When I returned from my visits I expressed to my hostess the pleasure I ...
... whole of this busy month had been as yet a dreary one to me . Had I left Stockholm then , I should have left it without taking with me many pleasant recollections . When I returned from my visits I expressed to my hostess the pleasure I ...
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... whole world such patient sight- seers as the Swedes could not be found . We were in the chapel two hours before the appointed time , and we were so far from being the first as to be considerably removed from the altar , where the ...
... whole world such patient sight- seers as the Swedes could not be found . We were in the chapel two hours before the appointed time , and we were so far from being the first as to be considerably removed from the altar , where the ...
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... whole , while they criticise it in parts . The thing itself may be as ugly as need be , yet I would not have it put out of my view for any other building . And then there is the Mälar , or that mouth 56 LIFE IN SWEDEN .
... whole , while they criticise it in parts . The thing itself may be as ugly as need be , yet I would not have it put out of my view for any other building . And then there is the Mälar , or that mouth 56 LIFE IN SWEDEN .
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... whole of the assembly crowded after them . I found myself brought into close propinquity with Prince Oscar , who could understand Grefven's English , at least as well as he could understand it himself , when he was giving me the ...
... whole of the assembly crowded after them . I found myself brought into close propinquity with Prince Oscar , who could understand Grefven's English , at least as well as he could understand it himself , when he was giving me the ...
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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.