Gossip about Letters and Letter-writersEdmonston and Douglas, 1873 - 256 pages |
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... answer of Hiram , King of Tyre , to Solomon's message respecting the building of the Temple ; and a few hundred years later , there are several interesting allu- sions to letters , and the mode of their despatch , in the Books of Ezra ...
... answer of Hiram , King of Tyre , to Solomon's message respecting the building of the Temple ; and a few hundred years later , there are several interesting allu- sions to letters , and the mode of their despatch , in the Books of Ezra ...
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... answer- ' There is no hate like love to hatred turned , Nor annie furie like a woman scorned . ' To the honourable Lord Milton , at his house in Edinburgh . About half a century after the date of Sus- anna Kennedy's quaint epistle to ...
... answer- ' There is no hate like love to hatred turned , Nor annie furie like a woman scorned . ' To the honourable Lord Milton , at his house in Edinburgh . About half a century after the date of Sus- anna Kennedy's quaint epistle to ...
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... answered me out of Terence -Ista commemoratio est quasi exprobratio . How then ought I to rattle you , when I have a dozen years more to answer for , all monastically passed in this country of liberty and delight , and money and good ...
... answered me out of Terence -Ista commemoratio est quasi exprobratio . How then ought I to rattle you , when I have a dozen years more to answer for , all monastically passed in this country of liberty and delight , and money and good ...
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... answered me , ' No language , Monsieur , ' which , as I afterwards found , were all the words he was master of in both tongues . I am at present in a town where all the languages in Europe are spoken except English , which is not to be ...
... answered me , ' No language , Monsieur , ' which , as I afterwards found , were all the words he was master of in both tongues . I am at present in a town where all the languages in Europe are spoken except English , which is not to be ...
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... answer for three weeks ; and you know , mother , that I could not command the elements . My misfortune was , that , when the wind served , I happened to be with a party in the country , and my friend the captain never inquired after me ...
... answer for three weeks ; and you know , mother , that I could not command the elements . My misfortune was , that , when the wind served , I happened to be with a party in the country , and my friend the captain never inquired after me ...
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