American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular, Volume 4, Issue 8George W. Childs, 1867 - Bibliography, National |
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... period of time . The want of roads , and other vehicles than carriages drawn by horses , forbade any great circulation of books , and the circles of readers in those distant days were few and small indeed . It may almost be said there ...
... period of time . The want of roads , and other vehicles than carriages drawn by horses , forbade any great circulation of books , and the circles of readers in those distant days were few and small indeed . It may almost be said there ...
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... period of time . The want of roads , and other vehicles than carriages drawn by horses , forbade any great circulation of books , and the circles of readers in those distant days were few and small indeed . It may almost be said there ...
... period of time . The want of roads , and other vehicles than carriages drawn by horses , forbade any great circulation of books , and the circles of readers in those distant days were few and small indeed . It may almost be said there ...
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... period of an unusually dull season , when stocks were large and the public requirements DANISH LEGATION , WASHINGTON , 22d February , 1866 . to be had at diminished prices . The surgeons of Vienna have lately employed , with much suc ...
... period of an unusually dull season , when stocks were large and the public requirements DANISH LEGATION , WASHINGTON , 22d February , 1866 . to be had at diminished prices . The surgeons of Vienna have lately employed , with much suc ...
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... period of the same year ; the third in 1864 , and the fourth in the present year . There is a good deal of humor in the book , and the author is capable of being entertaining and satirical without the aid of wretched spelling . " The ...
... period of the same year ; the third in 1864 , and the fourth in the present year . There is a good deal of humor in the book , and the author is capable of being entertaining and satirical without the aid of wretched spelling . " The ...
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... period in the earth's history when its na- tural ornament was absent ; when its surface was an arid desert , a vast solitude , the abode of silence and death . Plants preceded animals in the order of creation ; when the great animals ...
... period in the earth's history when its na- tural ornament was absent ; when its surface was an arid desert , a vast solitude , the abode of silence and death . Plants preceded animals in the order of creation ; when the great animals ...
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Page 60 - Scotland, that it was Robert Bruce's march at the battle of Bannockburn. This thought, in my solitary wanderings, warmed me to a pitch of enthusiasm on the theme of liberty and independence, which I threw into a kind of Scottish ode, fitted to the air, that one might suppose to be the gallant royal Scot's address to his heroic followers on that eventful morning.
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Page 129 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.