American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 18Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1841 - American periodicals |
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... observed , will furnish a sufficient illustration . The feast of St. Basil is kept by the Greek church on the first of January , and that day is in Greece , as throughout Europe , a day of visits , compliments , and gifts , but with ...
... observed , will furnish a sufficient illustration . The feast of St. Basil is kept by the Greek church on the first of January , and that day is in Greece , as throughout Europe , a day of visits , compliments , and gifts , but with ...
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... observation in Italy . It is perhaps with the view of acquiring this description of talent , perhaps from an instinctive thirst for lively and tender emotion , that the female villagers in some parts of Greece often exercise them ...
... observation in Italy . It is perhaps with the view of acquiring this description of talent , perhaps from an instinctive thirst for lively and tender emotion , that the female villagers in some parts of Greece often exercise them ...
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... observed a chasseur draw up at our porte - cochére . He drew from his sabretache a large sealed paper , which he handed to our portress , who obligingly came out of her den to attend to him , then struck spurs into his horse , and ...
... observed a chasseur draw up at our porte - cochére . He drew from his sabretache a large sealed paper , which he handed to our portress , who obligingly came out of her den to attend to him , then struck spurs into his horse , and ...
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... observation in English about court manners , that must have been offensive if it had been understood by his neigh ... observed through the scenes the opened countenance of our sable Ariel , and recognized the sonorous patronymic which ...
... observation in English about court manners , that must have been offensive if it had been understood by his neigh ... observed through the scenes the opened countenance of our sable Ariel , and recognized the sonorous patronymic which ...
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... observed , too , that whenever I wear a collar , which is seldom , it is very troublesome , and looks so aristocra- tic ; it has an invincible propensity to turn downward , à la Byron ; clearly indicating a poetic temperament . Yes ! I ...
... observed , too , that whenever I wear a collar , which is seldom , it is very troublesome , and looks so aristocra- tic ; it has an invincible propensity to turn downward , à la Byron ; clearly indicating a poetic temperament . Yes ! I ...
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