Dragons' Teeth, Volume 1L. Booth, 1863 - English fiction |
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... Richcourt and his Private Tutor - Tom 71 80 Snipe 88 CHAPTER IX . Ned Walford's First Impressions of College Life 106 CHAPTER X. How Man is born to Trouble ; and much more- Woman 124 CHAPTER XI . The Dying Station - master's History 135 ...
... Richcourt and his Private Tutor - Tom 71 80 Snipe 88 CHAPTER IX . Ned Walford's First Impressions of College Life 106 CHAPTER X. How Man is born to Trouble ; and much more- Woman 124 CHAPTER XI . The Dying Station - master's History 135 ...
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... Richcourt Manor , yet , after all , had missed it ! Who has not , at one moment of his life , grasped in his sanguine imagination some envied boon - measured it , and calculated it - even laid his plans and made up his mind what he ...
... Richcourt Manor , yet , after all , had missed it ! Who has not , at one moment of his life , grasped in his sanguine imagination some envied boon - measured it , and calculated it - even laid his plans and made up his mind what he ...
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... Richcourt Manor . But Richard Wyatt wanted no such master as General Colton ; and Richard's likes and dis- likes , Richard's sympathies and antipathies , were not hard to read ; especially when he returned to the General very short ...
... Richcourt Manor . But Richard Wyatt wanted no such master as General Colton ; and Richard's likes and dis- likes , Richard's sympathies and antipathies , were not hard to read ; especially when he returned to the General very short ...
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... , where he soon invested the greater part of his gains in the Manor of Richcourt , to which his attention had been called by his sister's husband , General Colton . 14 CHAPTER III . THE SINGULARITIES OF SINGLE LADIES AND.
... , where he soon invested the greater part of his gains in the Manor of Richcourt , to which his attention had been called by his sister's husband , General Colton . 14 CHAPTER III . THE SINGULARITIES OF SINGLE LADIES AND.
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... Richcourt Hall had long been declared " no good to anybody ; " that is to say , the village doctor saw no place . where the patients were not ; the village lawyer missed a client ; the parson got no parochial subscriptions , while the ...
... Richcourt Hall had long been declared " no good to anybody ; " that is to say , the village doctor saw no place . where the patients were not ; the village lawyer missed a client ; the parson got no parochial subscriptions , while the ...
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Page 93 - What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.
Page 206 - s weel with you gentles, that can sit in the house with handkerchers at your een, when ye lose a friend; but the like o' us maun to our work again, if our hearts were beating as hard as ony hammer.
Page 69 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Page 225 - This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 13 - See also Jer. vii. 29. Micah i. 16. Isaiah vii. 20. No. 958. — ii. 4. Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath, will he give for his life.] Before the invention of money, trade used to be carried on by barter ; that is, by exchanging one commodity for another. The men who had been hunting in the woods for wild beasts would carry their skins to market, and exchange them with the armourer for so many bows and arrows. As these traffickers were...
Page 85 - Eton, and the other public schools, properly so called; and we hope and trust that an effort will now be made on the part of the Masters and Fellows of Eton to do full justice to those committed to their charge.