German Popular Stories and Fairy TalesGeorge Bell & Sons, 1888 - 306 pages |
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... mind as do not interfere with the important department of moral education , there can surely be no ob- jection to the pleasurable employment of a faculty in which so much of our happiness in every period of life consists . But the ...
... mind as do not interfere with the important department of moral education , there can surely be no ob- jection to the pleasurable employment of a faculty in which so much of our happiness in every period of life consists . But the ...
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... mind that their little work makes no literary pretensions ; that its immediate design precludes several of the subjects which would be most attractive to many as matters of research ; that professedly critical dis- sertations would ...
... mind that their little work makes no literary pretensions ; that its immediate design precludes several of the subjects which would be most attractive to many as matters of research ; that professedly critical dis- sertations would ...
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... mind with unseen glorie Told of creatures of the air , Spirits , fairies , goblins , rare , Guarding man with tenderest care ; When before the blazing hearth , Listening to the tale of mirth , Sons and daughters , mother , sire ...
... mind with unseen glorie Told of creatures of the air , Spirits , fairies , goblins , rare , Guarding man with tenderest care ; When before the blazing hearth , Listening to the tale of mirth , Sons and daughters , mother , sire ...
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... mind that no one could make her laugh ; and the king had made known to all the world , that whoever could make her laugh should have her for his wife . When the young man heard this , he went to her , with his goose and all its train ...
... mind that no one could make her laugh ; and the king had made known to all the world , that whoever could make her laugh should have her for his wife . When the young man heard this , he went to her , with his goose and all its train ...
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... minds to that . " So they went to bed . 66 The next morning when Dame Ilsabill awoke it was broad daylight , and she jogged the fisherman with her elbow , and said , " Get up , husband , and bestir yourself , for we must be king of all ...
... minds to that . " So they went to bed . 66 The next morning when Dame Ilsabill awoke it was broad daylight , and she jogged the fisherman with her elbow , and said , " Get up , husband , and bestir yourself , for we must be king of all ...
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