New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, 102. köideThomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Thomas Hood, Theodore Edward Hook, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1854 |
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... course of another generation , we shall know as little about the domestic customs as we do about the every - day life of Etruria . So rapidly do the manners of a nation change . Time leads men into dif- ferent paths from those in which ...
... course of another generation , we shall know as little about the domestic customs as we do about the every - day life of Etruria . So rapidly do the manners of a nation change . Time leads men into dif- ferent paths from those in which ...
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... course , honourable exceptions , and many came home with that polish and refinement which travel is calculated to give ; but to the thoughtless , the weak - minded , and weak - principled , the grand tour was a dangerous ordeal ...
... course , honourable exceptions , and many came home with that polish and refinement which travel is calculated to give ; but to the thoughtless , the weak - minded , and weak - principled , the grand tour was a dangerous ordeal ...
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... course , by the time he gets to Varna hospital , he is not in a state to give long trouble to the surgeons . There's an incessant scuffle to get carts for our provisions : the French are provided with their own , but with us it's all ...
... course , by the time he gets to Varna hospital , he is not in a state to give long trouble to the surgeons . There's an incessant scuffle to get carts for our provisions : the French are provided with their own , but with us it's all ...
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... course , if there were a shadow of foundation for what he says , Greer and Garrett and the rest of them might dig a hole in the ground and put their heads in , like ostriches , and never come out again ; but you , dear sir , and the ...
... course , if there were a shadow of foundation for what he says , Greer and Garrett and the rest of them might dig a hole in the ground and put their heads in , like ostriches , and never come out again ; but you , dear sir , and the ...
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... course , but you should have seen these . They were sitting and lying on the grass in numbers , and , my eye ! so lovely . Grecians , Circassians , Georgians , Persians ! possessing features of the highest order of chiselled beauty ...
... course , but you should have seen these . They were sitting and lying on the grass in numbers , and , my eye ! so lovely . Grecians , Circassians , Georgians , Persians ! possessing features of the highest order of chiselled beauty ...
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