Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts, Volume 5Lippincott, Grambo [& Company,], 1854 |
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... mind and character , with which fiction and romance have invested him . While the wretched and half - starved hunter of the north drags on a toilsome and cheerless existence , amidst his mazy wilderness of forests and wintry lakes ...
... mind and character , with which fiction and romance have invested him . While the wretched and half - starved hunter of the north drags on a toilsome and cheerless existence , amidst his mazy wilderness of forests and wintry lakes ...
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... mind , that though I could not at all understand some of it , it delighted me beyond description ; and it produced what I have always considered a birth of intellect . I read on till it was dark , without any thought about supper or bed ...
... mind , that though I could not at all understand some of it , it delighted me beyond description ; and it produced what I have always considered a birth of intellect . I read on till it was dark , without any thought about supper or bed ...
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... mind , the most common mode of escape is to run away from home once more , and this appears to have been the course adopted by Cobbett , a few months after his visit to Portsmouth . ' It was on the 6th of May 1783 , that I , like Don ...
... mind , the most common mode of escape is to run away from home once more , and this appears to have been the course adopted by Cobbett , a few months after his visit to Portsmouth . ' It was on the 6th of May 1783 , that I , like Don ...
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... mind to escape from a mode of life which must have been pur- gatory to one who had previously been occupied in rural employ- ment . The only wonder is , that a spirited young fellow should have endured it so long as he seems to have ...
... mind to escape from a mode of life which must have been pur- gatory to one who had previously been occupied in rural employ- ment . The only wonder is , that a spirited young fellow should have endured it so long as he seems to have ...
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... mind that she was the very girl for me . That I thought her beautiful is certain , for that I had always said should be an indispensable qualification ; but I saw in her what I deemed marks of that sobriety of conduct of which I have ...
... mind that she was the very girl for me . That I thought her beautiful is certain , for that I had always said should be an indispensable qualification ; but I saw in her what I deemed marks of that sobriety of conduct of which I have ...
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