The Town: Its Memorable Characters and EventsOxford University Press, 1907 - 527 pages |
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Page ix
... present work , would have tasked the exertions of Mr. Hunt too severely for the state of his health . The idea was , therefore , abandoned for the present ; and the Author has been content to continue his retrospect of the sovereigns of ...
... present work , would have tasked the exertions of Mr. Hunt too severely for the state of his health . The idea was , therefore , abandoned for the present ; and the Author has been content to continue his retrospect of the sovereigns of ...
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... present mode of existence , seeks to extend itself on all sides , past , present , and to come . If it puts on wings angelical , and pitches itself into the grand obscurity of the future , it runs back also on the more visible line of ...
... present mode of existence , seeks to extend itself on all sides , past , present , and to come . If it puts on wings angelical , and pitches itself into the grand obscurity of the future , it runs back also on the more visible line of ...
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... present to us a por- tion of the tranquillity we think we are labouring for , and the desire of which is felt as an earnest that we shall realize it somewhere , either in this world or in the next . Above all , they render us more ...
... present to us a por- tion of the tranquillity we think we are labouring for , and the desire of which is felt as an earnest that we shall realize it somewhere , either in this world or in the next . Above all , they render us more ...
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