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... talking meta- physics to a bull ; the first you know , you get a horn in your navel . " And while the novelist was expres- sing his disdain of all adverse criticism , and quoting Emerson to the effect that the average reviewer had the ...
... talking meta- physics to a bull ; the first you know , you get a horn in your navel . " And while the novelist was expres- sing his disdain of all adverse criticism , and quoting Emerson to the effect that the average reviewer had the ...
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... talked and made until it was long past the conventiona Tristrem felt that he should go . He had in unnavigated seas of happiness , but heart he felt the burn of a red , round w lie that Weldon had told smarted stil serener spirit he ...
... talked and made until it was long past the conventiona Tristrem felt that he should go . He had in unnavigated seas of happiness , but heart he felt the burn of a red , round w lie that Weldon had told smarted stil serener spirit he ...
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... talking about . What I say is shee However , " he continued again , " I want You have seen so little of me that I d you would be particularly interested , I- He hesitated again , and then ceased s had been looking at his father , and ...
... talking about . What I say is shee However , " he continued again , " I want You have seen so little of me that I d you would be particularly interested , I- He hesitated again , and then ceased s had been looking at his father , and ...
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... talking together over the youth of her who had been mother to one and daughter to the other . " See ! " said Tristrem at last , when his grandfather had given the brooch into his keeping . " See ! I have something for her too . " And ...
... talking together over the youth of her who had been mother to one and daughter to the other . " See ! " said Tristrem at last , when his grandfather had given the brooch into his keeping . " See ! I have something for her too . " And ...
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... talking . You'll get there , boss . Just lay back and count your thumbs . " The negro snapped his whip , and soon Tristrem was jolted over one of the worst and fairest roads of New England , through a country for which nature has done ...
... talking . You'll get there , boss . Just lay back and count your thumbs . " The negro snapped his whip , and soon Tristrem was jolted over one of the worst and fairest roads of New England , through a country for which nature has done ...
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Page 105 - No person having a husband, wife, child or parent, shall, by his or her last will and testament, devise or bequeath to any benevolent, charitable, literary, scientific, religious or missionary society, association or corporation, in trust or otherwise, more than one-half part of his or her estate, after the payment of his or her debts, and such devise or bequest shall be valid to the extent of one-half, and no more.
Page 106 - ... no such devise or bequest shall be valid in any will which shall not have been made and executed at least two months before the death of the testator.