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Page 96
Beside Josephus lies a pile of books in old brown calf bindings , more or less tattered . Inspection shows them to be an old spelling - book , a manual of family prayer , Old Moore's Almanac , a " Pious Parishioner , " and perhaps a ...
Beside Josephus lies a pile of books in old brown calf bindings , more or less tattered . Inspection shows them to be an old spelling - book , a manual of family prayer , Old Moore's Almanac , a " Pious Parishioner , " and perhaps a ...
Page 137
Wine was cheap , tea was dear , gluttony and drunkenness were anything but improper , The country - folk were no less energetic on their own scale . They romped and shouted at village fairs and wakes ; they belaboured one another ...
Wine was cheap , tea was dear , gluttony and drunkenness were anything but improper , The country - folk were no less energetic on their own scale . They romped and shouted at village fairs and wakes ; they belaboured one another ...
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As to his genius , I grant you it was purgative to him ; but less because it put him in noble company than because it gave vent through the imagination , and with artistic balance , to the wickedness which might else have forced a less ...
As to his genius , I grant you it was purgative to him ; but less because it put him in noble company than because it gave vent through the imagination , and with artistic balance , to the wickedness which might else have forced a less ...
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Birds The Poets By Phil ROBINSON | 1 |
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Library The By Rev M G WATKINS M | 89 |
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