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... cloth . Through EUROPE and the EAST , during the Years 1824. " Two pleasantly written and beau- tifully got - up volumes , intended for the juvenile portion of the commu- nity , and adapted to their capacity . Mr.Howitt possesses the ...
... cloth . Through EUROPE and the EAST , during the Years 1824. " Two pleasantly written and beau- tifully got - up volumes , intended for the juvenile portion of the commu- nity , and adapted to their capacity . Mr.Howitt possesses the ...
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... cloth . " Holthaus is a shrewd fellow , and can use an eye as deftly as a needle . There is a vein of humour in him ; and he sympathises - which is a great matter with his own condition of life . A man might sit cross - legged for a ...
... cloth . " Holthaus is a shrewd fellow , and can use an eye as deftly as a needle . There is a vein of humour in him ; and he sympathises - which is a great matter with his own condition of life . A man might sit cross - legged for a ...
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... cloth . " German student - life has of course its brighter side and pleasanter traits . Its generous friendships , its buoyant spirits , its noble songs , its intense study , at the last may well compen- sate for many of its darker ...
... cloth . " German student - life has of course its brighter side and pleasanter traits . Its generous friendships , its buoyant spirits , its noble songs , its intense study , at the last may well compen- sate for many of its darker ...
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... clothing : yet which unfortunately , constructed without accurate knowledge of the size of the persons , do not fit . Then only think of the uncomfortableness and destitution endured whilst vast voyages are performing to and fro : that ...
... clothing : yet which unfortunately , constructed without accurate knowledge of the size of the persons , do not fit . Then only think of the uncomfortableness and destitution endured whilst vast voyages are performing to and fro : that ...
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... clothes to dry ! We have reached our line , the clothes- line . Now the winds have died away until the ocean is one expanse of liquid sleep ; the sunset how wildly sublime ! like red - hot molten gold next the horizon , and all purple ...
... clothes to dry ! We have reached our line , the clothes- line . Now the winds have died away until the ocean is one expanse of liquid sleep ; the sunset how wildly sublime ! like red - hot molten gold next the horizon , and all purple ...
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