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Page 39
... English language was taking shape , the people knew quite as much of the sea as of the woods . You ought , therefore , to surpass us in describing coast and sea - scenery , winds and storms , and the motion of waves . " near . So I ...
... English language was taking shape , the people knew quite as much of the sea as of the woods . You ought , therefore , to surpass us in describing coast and sea - scenery , winds and storms , and the motion of waves . " near . So I ...
Page 64
... English tourist sees in ten days , or an American , perhaps , in five . Going abroad in need of rest , I ram- bled slowly about , sojourning at each place as long as I found it agreeable , then moving on to another , avoiding the ...
... English tourist sees in ten days , or an American , perhaps , in five . Going abroad in need of rest , I ram- bled slowly about , sojourning at each place as long as I found it agreeable , then moving on to another , avoiding the ...
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... English people , and one which they will not be induced to betray . An attempt to change the English law for the pur- poses of the French police was fatal to Palmerston , at the height of his popu- larity and power . VOL . XVIII . - NO ...
... English people , and one which they will not be induced to betray . An attempt to change the English law for the pur- poses of the French police was fatal to Palmerston , at the height of his popu- larity and power . VOL . XVIII . - NO ...
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... English history . In France , how different ! Scarcely eighty years have passed since the Chateau de Montgomeri was proud and gay ; since the village idlers gath- ered here to see its lord , and his lit- tle provincial court , assemble ...
... English history . In France , how different ! Scarcely eighty years have passed since the Chateau de Montgomeri was proud and gay ; since the village idlers gath- ered here to see its lord , and his lit- tle provincial court , assemble ...
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... English economists , especially as we are evi- dently on the eve of a great controversy — perhaps a great struggle - respecting the law of succession to landed prop- erty in our own country . Not that any English economist would go so ...
... English economists , especially as we are evi- dently on the eve of a great controversy — perhaps a great struggle - respecting the law of succession to landed prop- erty in our own country . Not that any English economist would go so ...
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