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... look after it , and keep it clean ? " For a treasure is like a child in this , it has to be dry - nursed by oneself or a hire- ling . Poor , helpless , pretty thing ! Fine taste is best taught by examples . Few of us possess galleries ...
... look after it , and keep it clean ? " For a treasure is like a child in this , it has to be dry - nursed by oneself or a hire- ling . Poor , helpless , pretty thing ! Fine taste is best taught by examples . Few of us possess galleries ...
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... look at home . Is there no connection between our increasing idleness and the depression in trade ? We talk plaintively about hard- worked schoolmasters - bah ! Masters seek too great trade profits ; not in money , but in time , which ...
... look at home . Is there no connection between our increasing idleness and the depression in trade ? We talk plaintively about hard- worked schoolmasters - bah ! Masters seek too great trade profits ; not in money , but in time , which ...
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... look for mute , inglorious Miltons ; use of energy would have made them neither mute nor inglorious . It needs no John Hunter to discover the cause of the stoppage of our social circulation ; sloth and greed are at the bottom of it all ...
... look for mute , inglorious Miltons ; use of energy would have made them neither mute nor inglorious . It needs no John Hunter to discover the cause of the stoppage of our social circulation ; sloth and greed are at the bottom of it all ...
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... looks low in juxta- position with the lines of lofty houses stretching away east and west towards the sky , houses painfully suggestive of ladders , lifts , and fire - escapes ; for Alford House has only two stories above its ground ...
... looks low in juxta- position with the lines of lofty houses stretching away east and west towards the sky , houses painfully suggestive of ladders , lifts , and fire - escapes ; for Alford House has only two stories above its ground ...
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... looks warm , yet subdued , in com- parison with the coldly staring crimson with white dressings of the mansions recently erected near by . Festoons in terra - cotta , and ornamental keystones above the windows , are the leading features ...
... looks warm , yet subdued , in com- parison with the coldly staring crimson with white dressings of the mansions recently erected near by . Festoons in terra - cotta , and ornamental keystones above the windows , are the leading features ...
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