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... English societies which , from time to time , have set themselves to reprinting some of the works , inaccessible but for them , which lie at the foundation of our literature . But the Early English Text Society , useful as it has been ...
... English societies which , from time to time , have set themselves to reprinting some of the works , inaccessible but for them , which lie at the foundation of our literature . But the Early English Text Society , useful as it has been ...
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... English men with anxiety and alarm . Though the increase of national wealth is estimated at $ 50,000,000 per annum , the increase of poverty seems to keep pace with it . Every winter in London , it is estimated , there are 170,000 ...
... English men with anxiety and alarm . Though the increase of national wealth is estimated at $ 50,000,000 per annum , the increase of poverty seems to keep pace with it . Every winter in London , it is estimated , there are 170,000 ...
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... English armies are invading some other country . Nothing ever comes of these panics , because the fear is never strong enough to over- come the dislike of compulsory military service which an enlargement of the effective military force ...
... English armies are invading some other country . Nothing ever comes of these panics , because the fear is never strong enough to over- come the dislike of compulsory military service which an enlargement of the effective military force ...
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... English ? ” It would be answer enough , perhaps , to say that , as a portraiture of New England life , these little touches of coarseness must not be omitted . But we maintain , further , that there is , indirectly , a valuable purpose ...
... English ? ” It would be answer enough , perhaps , to say that , as a portraiture of New England life , these little touches of coarseness must not be omitted . But we maintain , further , that there is , indirectly , a valuable purpose ...
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... English History " is very exhaustive . Some of the literary pieces betray a decidedly able hand . The Historical Reader , embracing Selections from Standard Writers of Ancient and Modern History , interspersed with illustrative Passages ...
... English History " is very exhaustive . Some of the literary pieces betray a decidedly able hand . The Historical Reader , embracing Selections from Standard Writers of Ancient and Modern History , interspersed with illustrative Passages ...
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