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... delightful as the Faubourg of Vienna . It is very large , and almost wholly composed of delicious palaces . If the emperor found it proper to permit the gates of the town to be laid open , that the Faubourgs might be joined to it , he ...
... delightful as the Faubourg of Vienna . It is very large , and almost wholly composed of delicious palaces . If the emperor found it proper to permit the gates of the town to be laid open , that the Faubourgs might be joined to it , he ...
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... delight in rearing all sorts of poultry - geese , turkeys , pullets , ducks , etc. I am also somewhat smitten with a blackbird which I have purchased , a very fine one , brother by father , but not by mother , to the unfortunate bird ...
... delight in rearing all sorts of poultry - geese , turkeys , pullets , ducks , etc. I am also somewhat smitten with a blackbird which I have purchased , a very fine one , brother by father , but not by mother , to the unfortunate bird ...
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... delight beyond measure , but which you cannot visit except in the spring or autumn . The heat of summer , and clinging dirt of winter , would destroy you . What is called the cliff is no cliff , nor at all like one , but a beautiful ...
... delight beyond measure , but which you cannot visit except in the spring or autumn . The heat of summer , and clinging dirt of winter , would destroy you . What is called the cliff is no cliff , nor at all like one , but a beautiful ...
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... delightful bays at the head of the lake , in any of which we may land ; and if you love fishing , you may catch ... delightfully , and puts a large part of the finest scenery within our reach . You will find him very friendly , and will ...
... delightful bays at the head of the lake , in any of which we may land ; and if you love fishing , you may catch ... delightfully , and puts a large part of the finest scenery within our reach . You will find him very friendly , and will ...
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... delightful , and , would calm you after any scene in a casino . The gondolas of the foreign ministers carry the national flag . It I think you would be pleased with an Italian theatre . is lighted only from the stage , and the soft ...
... delightful , and , would calm you after any scene in a casino . The gondolas of the foreign ministers carry the national flag . It I think you would be pleased with an Italian theatre . is lighted only from the stage , and the soft ...
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Page 97 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it...
Page 100 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
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Page 27 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
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Page 45 - ... connoisseur, unable to afford him any longer a pleasure. So fading upon me, from disuse, have been the beauties of Nature, as they have been confinedly called; so ever fresh, and green, and warm are all the inventions of men, and assemblies of men in this great city.
Page 20 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Page 19 - And when the rain has wet the kite and twine, so that it can conduct the electric fire freely, you will find it stream out plentifully from the key on the approach of your knuckle. At this key the phial...