American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 51Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis 1858 - American periodicals |
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... learned that our mess having become short of ' grub , a committee of ways and means had been called to devise measures of relief ; the which committee , after a long debate , deemed it expedient to appoint one of their number , Hart , a ...
... learned that our mess having become short of ' grub , a committee of ways and means had been called to devise measures of relief ; the which committee , after a long debate , deemed it expedient to appoint one of their number , Hart , a ...
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... learned two important things : I was right in my conjecture that the thief was of high rank , for the ma- terial was costly ; and second , that the man , whoever he was , was dressed in a blue robe . So costly was the cashmere , that I ...
... learned two important things : I was right in my conjecture that the thief was of high rank , for the ma- terial was costly ; and second , that the man , whoever he was , was dressed in a blue robe . So costly was the cashmere , that I ...
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... learned , save in gracious household ways ; Not perfect , nay , but full of tender wants ; No angel , but a dearer being , all dipt In angel instincts , breathing paradise ; Interpreter between the gods and men , Who looked all native ...
... learned , save in gracious household ways ; Not perfect , nay , but full of tender wants ; No angel , but a dearer being , all dipt In angel instincts , breathing paradise ; Interpreter between the gods and men , Who looked all native ...
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... learned ; it may be all truth , and yet have breadth , and depth , and effective force of composition ; fore- ground and back - ground need not to be rolled out flat , like the pie - man's crust , and plastered , thus distorted , on the ...
... learned ; it may be all truth , and yet have breadth , and depth , and effective force of composition ; fore- ground and back - ground need not to be rolled out flat , like the pie - man's crust , and plastered , thus distorted , on the ...
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... learned lady ; who to the question , ' Did she think the virtue of any single one of her sisterhood impregnable ? ' replied ' C'est selon . ' This opinion , among others of questionable morality , he had ' imbibed sitting at the feet of ...
... learned lady ; who to the question , ' Did she think the virtue of any single one of her sisterhood impregnable ? ' replied ' C'est selon . ' This opinion , among others of questionable morality , he had ' imbibed sitting at the feet of ...
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