The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces from Their Writings, Comprising the Best Features of Many Celebrated Compilations, Notably the Guernsey Collection, the De Puy Collection, the Ridpath Collection, All Carefully Rev. and Arranged by a Corps of the Most Capable Scholars, 8. köideJohn Clark Ridpath Globe publishing Company, 1898 |
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... looks in vain . These people would surely never rouse them- selves to contradict the man who asserted , with grim disdain of all intense life , that the happiest moment each day , to the happiest person , was the moment when ...
... looks in vain . These people would surely never rouse them- selves to contradict the man who asserted , with grim disdain of all intense life , that the happiest moment each day , to the happiest person , was the moment when ...
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... look up to the jackdaws circling round the towers , or the old river running away to Rome . For all the waters cried to me to leap , and all the birds to fly . And you cannot tell , unless you had been born to do it , as I was , how ...
... look up to the jackdaws circling round the towers , or the old river running away to Rome . For all the waters cried to me to leap , and all the birds to fly . And you cannot tell , unless you had been born to do it , as I was , how ...
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... shipowner and the farmer , the rogue and the swindler , the rough and his victim , each speaking of himself or his op- ponent as he wished nis " fellow citizens " to look upon them . Among the most characteristic of these pleas DEMOSTHENES.
... shipowner and the farmer , the rogue and the swindler , the rough and his victim , each speaking of himself or his op- ponent as he wished nis " fellow citizens " to look upon them . Among the most characteristic of these pleas DEMOSTHENES.
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... look forward , and to warn others of their approach : all this I have done . Then to confine within the narrowest bounds all delays and backwardness and ignorance and contentiousness— faults which are inherent and unavoidable in all ...
... look forward , and to warn others of their approach : all this I have done . Then to confine within the narrowest bounds all delays and backwardness and ignorance and contentiousness— faults which are inherent and unavoidable in all ...
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... look up from a book or work to say casually , " Papa , your hair is on fire ; " of which a calm " Is it , my love ? " and a hand rubbing out the blaze was all the notice taken . one to This idyllic way of life was brought to a close in ...
... look up from a book or work to say casually , " Papa , your hair is on fire ; " of which a calm " Is it , my love ? " and a hand rubbing out the blaze was all the notice taken . one to This idyllic way of life was brought to a close in ...
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