Song to Generations: Fragments from British and American ClassicsSeven Seas Publishers, 1961 - 267 pages |
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... hundred copies , of which I had got subscrip- tions for about three hundred and fifty . My vanity was highly gratified by the reception I met with from the public ; and , besides , I pocketed , all expenses deducted , nearly twenty ...
... hundred copies , of which I had got subscrip- tions for about three hundred and fifty . My vanity was highly gratified by the reception I met with from the public ; and , besides , I pocketed , all expenses deducted , nearly twenty ...
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... hundred miles , but it was no trouble ; it was not a very large farm five hundred acres , perhaps - but I could have done it if it had been twice as large . And as for the morality of it , I cared - nothing for that ; I would move a ...
... hundred miles , but it was no trouble ; it was not a very large farm five hundred acres , perhaps - but I could have done it if it had been twice as large . And as for the morality of it , I cared - nothing for that ; I would move a ...
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... hundred . As three to sixteen hundred so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman . With so much ease and pleasantry could he talk of that prodigious labour which he had undertaken to execute . While the Dictionary was going ...
... hundred . As three to sixteen hundred so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman . With so much ease and pleasantry could he talk of that prodigious labour which he had undertaken to execute . While the Dictionary was going ...
Contents
HUMAN FRAILTIES AS THEY SAW THEM | 13 |
AS THEY SAW THEMSELVES | 44 |
AS THEY SAW ONE ANOTHER | 83 |
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