The Reliques of Father ProutG. Bell, 1889 - 580 pages |
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Page iii
... mind and feelings of the man have to be distilled . It requires no great palæontological acumen to perceive that he belonged to a class of mortals , now quite gone out of Irish existence , like the elk and wolf - dog ; and it has been a ...
... mind and feelings of the man have to be distilled . It requires no great palæontological acumen to perceive that he belonged to a class of mortals , now quite gone out of Irish existence , like the elk and wolf - dog ; and it has been a ...
Page ix
... the chest , " and daily more impressed with the merit of our author , we thought it a pity that his wisdom should be suffered to evaporate in magazine squibs . What impression could , in sooth , be made on the public mind by such.
... the chest , " and daily more impressed with the merit of our author , we thought it a pity that his wisdom should be suffered to evaporate in magazine squibs . What impression could , in sooth , be made on the public mind by such.
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Francis Mahony. sooth , be made on the public mind by such desultory ex- plosions ? Never on the dense mass of readers can isolated random shots produce the effect of a regular feu de peloton . For this reason we have arranged in one ...
Francis Mahony. sooth , be made on the public mind by such desultory ex- plosions ? Never on the dense mass of readers can isolated random shots produce the effect of a regular feu de peloton . For this reason we have arranged in one ...
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... mind ( when the young idea is taught how to shoot ) , that you won the victories of Poitiers and Agincourt mainly by the superio- rity of your diet . In hewing down the ranks of the foeman , much of the English army's success is of ...
... mind ( when the young idea is taught how to shoot ) , that you won the victories of Poitiers and Agincourt mainly by the superio- rity of your diet . In hewing down the ranks of the foeman , much of the English army's success is of ...
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... mind of the sagacious Buffon , in his views of man and man's propensities ( which , after all , are the proper study of mankind ) , that a predilec- tion for light food and spare diet has always been the characteristic of the Celtic and ...
... mind of the sagacious Buffon , in his views of man and man's propensities ( which , after all , are the proper study of mankind ) , that a predilec- tion for light food and spare diet has always been the characteristic of the Celtic and ...
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