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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... became the saviour of the Republic . If Shakespeare is the commanding originating genius of England , and Goethe of Germany , Hamilton must occupy that place among Americans . At seventeen he had formulated the principles of government ...
... became the saviour of the Republic . If Shakespeare is the commanding originating genius of England , and Goethe of Germany , Hamilton must occupy that place among Americans . At seventeen he had formulated the principles of government ...
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... became his nominal home for the ensuing twenty - seven years . He kept up a bachelor's es- tablishment for seven years , when he married Margaret Simpson , the beautiful and excellent daughter of a small farmer living near by . In his ...
... became his nominal home for the ensuing twenty - seven years . He kept up a bachelor's es- tablishment for seven years , when he married Margaret Simpson , the beautiful and excellent daughter of a small farmer living near by . In his ...
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... became a regular and confirmed ( no longer an intermitting ) opium - eater . " From this time the quantity consumed grew larger and larger until it rose to 320 grains of solid opium , or 8,000 drops of laudanum a day - that is , to ...
... became a regular and confirmed ( no longer an intermitting ) opium - eater . " From this time the quantity consumed grew larger and larger until it rose to 320 grains of solid opium , or 8,000 drops of laudanum a day - that is , to ...
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... became to me the object of more horror than all the rest . I was compelled to live with him , and ( as always the case in my dreams ) for centuries . Sometimes I escaped , and found myself in Chinese houses . All the feet of the tables ...
... became to me the object of more horror than all the rest . I was compelled to live with him , and ( as always the case in my dreams ) for centuries . Sometimes I escaped , and found myself in Chinese houses . All the feet of the tables ...
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... became filled up with his accumulated books and papers . At one time , as we are told , he was paying rent for four or five such obscure lodging - places ; but whenever he walked out to . Lasswade , there was a cheerful home ready for ...
... became filled up with his accumulated books and papers . At one time , as we are told , he was paying rent for four or five such obscure lodging - places ; but whenever he walked out to . Lasswade , there was a cheerful home ready for ...
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