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... seems to have been guided primarily by other values : meaning more than sound or connotation , concrete words more than abstract words , current idiom more than authoritarian nicety . So much has been written on the qualities of ...
... seems to have been guided primarily by other values : meaning more than sound or connotation , concrete words more than abstract words , current idiom more than authoritarian nicety . So much has been written on the qualities of ...
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... seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant , and the warm - blooded , to fall into this vice - the demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity . What one of us but can ...
... seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant , and the warm - blooded , to fall into this vice - the demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity . What one of us but can ...
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... seems he had wandered away in mental derangement , and , had he died in this condition , and his body been found in the vicinity , it is difficult to conceive what could have saved the Trailors from the consequence of hav- ing murdered ...
... seems he had wandered away in mental derangement , and , had he died in this condition , and his body been found in the vicinity , it is difficult to conceive what could have saved the Trailors from the consequence of hav- ing murdered ...
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LINCOLNS DEVELOPMENT AS A WRITER | 1 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
of the House of Representatives at Springfield Illinois | 90 |
Copyright | |
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