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... hand as possible to amuse rather than to instruct . For , as Washington Irving delightfully sums up the matter : " It is so much pleasanter to please than to instruct , to play the companion rather than the preceptor . What , after all ...
... hand as possible to amuse rather than to instruct . For , as Washington Irving delightfully sums up the matter : " It is so much pleasanter to please than to instruct , to play the companion rather than the preceptor . What , after all ...
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... hand . These " photo- chromes " are unnatural and impossible , whereas the old permanent photographs were very beautiful . At Kemble , with its old manor house and stone- roofed cottages , we say goodbye to the Vale of White Horse ; for ...
... hand . These " photo- chromes " are unnatural and impossible , whereas the old permanent photographs were very beautiful . At Kemble , with its old manor house and stone- roofed cottages , we say goodbye to the Vale of White Horse ; for ...
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... hand of man seemed in some bygone time to have done all that was necessary to render the place habitable , but no more . There were cottages , bridges , and farm buildings , but all were ivy clad and time worn . The very trees ...
... hand of man seemed in some bygone time to have done all that was necessary to render the place habitable , but no more . There were cottages , bridges , and farm buildings , but all were ivy clad and time worn . The very trees ...
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... hands that have long been dust in the village churchyard wrought with infinite pains . That oak roof , carved in rich tracery , resting for ages on arcades of dog - tooth Norman and graceful Early English work , had echoed back the ...
... hands that have long been dust in the village churchyard wrought with infinite pains . That oak roof , carved in rich tracery , resting for ages on arcades of dog - tooth Norman and graceful Early English work , had echoed back the ...
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... hand , the occasional distribution of game throughout the village , and a hundred other small kindnesses do more to win the heart of the labouring man than much talk at election times of Small Holdings , Parish Councils , or Free ...
... hand , the occasional distribution of game throughout the village , and a hundred other small kindnesses do more to win the heart of the labouring man than much talk at election times of Small Holdings , Parish Councils , or Free ...
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