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... pleasures , consisting chiefly of drinking , gambling , and athletic sports , were coarse and repulsive . Yet under their coarsest enjoyments we discover a sturdy , masculine strength . They felt the presence of the mys- terious forces ...
... pleasures , consisting chiefly of drinking , gambling , and athletic sports , were coarse and repulsive . Yet under their coarsest enjoyments we discover a sturdy , masculine strength . They felt the presence of the mys- terious forces ...
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... pleasures , inculcating be- nevolent affections , and promoting intellectual culture , it supplied what was wanting in English character , and im- parted an element essential to the highest development of the national life . England was ...
... pleasures , inculcating be- nevolent affections , and promoting intellectual culture , it supplied what was wanting in English character , and im- parted an element essential to the highest development of the national life . England was ...
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... pleasures . They delighted in a gay social life , with hunting , hawking , showy equipage , and brilliant festivities . Diplomacy in a meas- ure supplanted daring frankness . Brilliant superficiality took the place of grave ...
... pleasures . They delighted in a gay social life , with hunting , hawking , showy equipage , and brilliant festivities . Diplomacy in a meas- ure supplanted daring frankness . Brilliant superficiality took the place of grave ...
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... pleasure , delight . = 134. Ferthing small quantity . Literally , a fourth part . fourth , and diminutive suffix ing . 136. Raughte - = reached . Preterit of reche . A. S. feorth , 137. Sikerly surely . Cf. Ger . sicherlich . - Disport ...
... pleasure , delight . = 134. Ferthing small quantity . Literally , a fourth part . fourth , and diminutive suffix ing . 136. Raughte - = reached . Preterit of reche . A. S. feorth , 137. Sikerly surely . Cf. Ger . sicherlich . - Disport ...
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... pleasure . Other forms are leste , list . = 193. Purfiled atte honde embroidered at the hand or cuff . Fr. pour- filer , to embroider . Atte , see 1. 29 . 194. Grys : = fur of the Siberian squirrel . French gris , gray . 200. In good ...
... pleasure . Other forms are leste , list . = 193. Purfiled atte honde embroidered at the hand or cuff . Fr. pour- filer , to embroider . Atte , see 1. 29 . 194. Grys : = fur of the Siberian squirrel . French gris , gray . 200. In good ...
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