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... remember what prestige means ? " asked he , sharply : " it is the Latin word for a lie . " As James Carlyle acquired more means he added to the small house in Ecclefechan a further building , which now stands behind the other in what is ...
... remember what prestige means ? " asked he , sharply : " it is the Latin word for a lie . " As James Carlyle acquired more means he added to the small house in Ecclefechan a further building , which now stands behind the other in what is ...
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... remember , about antiquarian words and names ; as that by meant town , and by - laws town - laws ; wick meant the corner of the mouth , such names as Berwick being given to places on creeks so shaped ; glead meant hawk , and Gladstone ...
... remember , about antiquarian words and names ; as that by meant town , and by - laws town - laws ; wick meant the corner of the mouth , such names as Berwick being given to places on creeks so shaped ; glead meant hawk , and Gladstone ...
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... re- ligious . I remember him going into the kitchen , where some servants were dancing , and reminding them very emphatically that they were dancing on the verge of a place which no politeness ever pre- THOMAS CARLYLE . 27.
... re- ligious . I remember him going into the kitchen , where some servants were dancing , and reminding them very emphatically that they were dancing on the verge of a place which no politeness ever pre- THOMAS CARLYLE . 27.
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... remember in my mother was her being too mild and peaceable for the planet she lived in . When I was sent to school , she piously enjoined on me that I should , under no conceivable circumstances , fight with any boy , nor resist any ...
... remember in my mother was her being too mild and peaceable for the planet she lived in . When I was sent to school , she piously enjoined on me that I should , under no conceivable circumstances , fight with any boy , nor resist any ...
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... so I had to modify my father's rigid rulings against books of fiction . I remember few happier days than those in which I ran off into the fields to read ' Roderick Random , ' and how inconsolable I was THOMAS CARLYLE . 31.
... so I had to modify my father's rigid rulings against books of fiction . I remember few happier days than those in which I ran off into the fields to read ' Roderick Random , ' and how inconsolable I was THOMAS CARLYLE . 31.
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