Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 1Charles Knight Charles Knight, 1850 - English literature |
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Page 291
... nights not sufficing to do it in . commands people to be within at nine at night all , as they say , that the sick may have liberty to go abroad for air . 13th . It was dark before I could get home , and so land at Churchyard stairs ...
... nights not sufficing to do it in . commands people to be within at nine at night all , as they say , that the sick may have liberty to go abroad for air . 13th . It was dark before I could get home , and so land at Churchyard stairs ...
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... NIGHT - THOUGHTS . YOUNG . [ WE scarcely know whether the ' Night Thoughts ' of EDWARD YOUNG have ceased to find a place in the libraries of general readers . Half a century ago they were amongst the most popular of poems , and were ...
... NIGHT - THOUGHTS . YOUNG . [ WE scarcely know whether the ' Night Thoughts ' of EDWARD YOUNG have ceased to find a place in the libraries of general readers . Half a century ago they were amongst the most popular of poems , and were ...
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... night , and enter the city on the following morning . This intelligence greatly disturbed Pizarro , who had shared in the general impa- tience of his men at the tardy movements of the Peruvians . The troops had been under arms since ...
... night , and enter the city on the following morning . This intelligence greatly disturbed Pizarro , who had shared in the general impa- tience of his men at the tardy movements of the Peruvians . The troops had been under arms since ...
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