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" Bolus's reputation stood higher for lying than for any thing else ; and in thus assigning pre-eminence to this poetic property, I do it without any desire to derogate from other brilliant characteristics belonging to the same general category, which have... "
Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire Into the Condition of ... - Page 1051
1872
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 18

1852 - 784 pages
...any thing else: and in thus assigning preeminence to this poetic property, I do it without any desire to derogate from other brilliant characteristics belonging to the same general category, which have drawn the wondering notice of the world. Some men are liars from interest; not because they...
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Report of the Joint Select Committee Appointed to Inquire Into the Condition ...

United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States - 1872 - 592 pages
...anything else ; and in thus assigning pre-eminence to these traits of his character, I do it without the least disposition to derogate from other brilliant...sort of necessity, others are enticed away by the beguilements of pleasure, or seduced by evil example and education. Whitfield belongs to a higher class...
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American Humor: Beecher, Hawthorne, Holmes, Irving, Longfellow, Etc

1886 - 332 pages
...thing else ; and in thus assigning pre-eminence to this poetic property, I do it without any desire to derogate from other brilliant characteristics belonging to the same general category, which have drawn the wondering notice of the world. Some men are liars from interest ; not because...
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Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature, Volume 1

Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1886 - 310 pages
...thing else ; and in thus assigning pre-eminence to this poetic property, I do it without any desire to derogate from other brilliant characteristics belonging to the same general category, which have drawn the wondering notice of the world. Some men are liars from interest ; not because...
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The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and ..., Volume 2

Lionel Strachey - 1905 - 316 pages
...anything else: and in thus assigning preeminence to this poetic property, I do it without any desire to derogate from other brilliant characteristics belonging to the same general category which have drawn the wondering notice of the world. Some men are liars from interest; not because they...
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American Wit and Humor, Volume 2

Joel Chandler Harris - 1907 - 316 pages
...anything else: and in thus assigning preeminence to this poetic property, I do it without any desire to derogate from other brilliant characteristics belonging to the same general category which have drawn the wondering notice of the world. Some men are liars from interest; not because they...
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Southern Life in Southern Literature

Maurice Garland Fulton - 1917 - 550 pages
...anything else ; and in thus assigning preeminence to this poetic property, I do it without any desire to derogate from other brilliant characteristics belonging to the same general category, which have drawn the wondering notice of the world. Some men are liars from interest ; not because...
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