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... family circle has not , we be- lieve , grown obsolete among us . It has a double advantage to recommend it . It accustoms a number of people , young as well as old , to the beauties of the dramatist , and it trains the younger members ...
... family circle has not , we be- lieve , grown obsolete among us . It has a double advantage to recommend it . It accustoms a number of people , young as well as old , to the beauties of the dramatist , and it trains the younger members ...
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THE FAMILY HERALD . THOSE Who remember the Forties of the century will remember the Family Herald . At a time when the schoolmaster was beginning to be abroad , this unpretending weekly was doing good work . The Saturday Magazine and ...
THE FAMILY HERALD . THOSE Who remember the Forties of the century will remember the Family Herald . At a time when the schoolmaster was beginning to be abroad , this unpretending weekly was doing good work . The Saturday Magazine and ...
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... family seats , at least many of them , were also public men . Here we see them rather in their private character ... families , became the property of Thomas Guy , the founder of the Hospital in Southwark which bears his name . He left ...
... family seats , at least many of them , were also public men . Here we see them rather in their private character ... families , became the property of Thomas Guy , the founder of the Hospital in Southwark which bears his name . He left ...
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... family - ties of words and expres- sions . Thousands of years ago supernatural beings , such as are described in the goodly volume before us , claimed the reverence , and received under various forms and symbols , the worship of nations ...
... family - ties of words and expres- sions . Thousands of years ago supernatural beings , such as are described in the goodly volume before us , claimed the reverence , and received under various forms and symbols , the worship of nations ...
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... family life , family sorrow , and family happiness , narrated in the direct form of an autobiography . It begins with the old year's bells and ends with a wed- ding ; so its compass includes a wide space in the social gamut . Northern ...
... family life , family sorrow , and family happiness , narrated in the direct form of an autobiography . It begins with the old year's bells and ends with a wed- ding ; so its compass includes a wide space in the social gamut . Northern ...
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