American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 18Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1841 - American periodicals |
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... thing is conducted with more solemnity , with more amiability , and above all , more poetically than elsewhere . Companies of young people assemble and repair to the houses of their acquaintances to wish them a happy new year , and ...
... thing is conducted with more solemnity , with more amiability , and above all , more poetically than elsewhere . Companies of young people assemble and repair to the houses of their acquaintances to wish them a happy new year , and ...
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... thing in nature sufficiently beautiful for a mother's fancy to experience pleasure in conceiving a resem- blance between it and her lost darling . From what has been said , the reader must have inferred what I now explicitly state ...
... thing in nature sufficiently beautiful for a mother's fancy to experience pleasure in conceiving a resem- blance between it and her lost darling . From what has been said , the reader must have inferred what I now explicitly state ...
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... thing that affects the social or moral tone of society . We exist in a constant fever of excitement ; and those living on one side of an extreme , denounce with unmeasured severity all who dwell on the opposite . Because different men ...
... thing that affects the social or moral tone of society . We exist in a constant fever of excitement ; and those living on one side of an extreme , denounce with unmeasured severity all who dwell on the opposite . Because different men ...
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... thing about ' patience , ' though he watched the countenance of the other like a cat . ' Patience ! ' exclaimed Wilkins , rising and speaking through his clenched teeth ; I have had patience ; and what has it brought ? It has reduced me ...
... thing about ' patience , ' though he watched the countenance of the other like a cat . ' Patience ! ' exclaimed Wilkins , rising and speaking through his clenched teeth ; I have had patience ; and what has it brought ? It has reduced me ...
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... thing else can be done . Can't we send her abroad ? You know if she is out of the way there's nothing between me and the widow . Once let me get her fortune , and you shall not be the loser by it . ' ' Can she prove the marriage ...
... thing else can be done . Can't we send her abroad ? You know if she is out of the way there's nothing between me and the widow . Once let me get her fortune , and you shall not be the loser by it . ' ' Can she prove the marriage ...
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