Scribner's Magazine, Volume 45Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan Charles Scribners Sons, 1909 - American periodicals |
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... live there , but the place being already divided into apartments , he could not expel the ten- ants , and was therefore obliged to occupy only parts of the dwelling , while Charles Beaudelaire the poet rented all the second floor ...
... live there , but the place being already divided into apartments , he could not expel the ten- ants , and was therefore obliged to occupy only parts of the dwelling , while Charles Beaudelaire the poet rented all the second floor ...
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... live , confident that his own opinions would be justified and his son re- turn home . Wolffert's first experience very nearly jus- tified this conviction . The fact that a Jew had come and taken one of the old apart- ments spread ...
... live , confident that his own opinions would be justified and his son re- turn home . Wolffert's first experience very nearly jus- tified this conviction . The fact that a Jew had come and taken one of the old apart- ments spread ...
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... live laborious days . ' You will never do that -- Peck will . " I left him , angry and uncomfortable . I had rather looked forward to going to father's , my the West to a near cousin of who , if report were true , had made a fort- une ...
... live laborious days . ' You will never do that -- Peck will . " I left him , angry and uncomfortable . I had rather looked forward to going to father's , my the West to a near cousin of who , if report were true , had made a fort- une ...
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... live . " So far only two rooms in the home were filled . The towns - people raised money enough to take old Sam Darrah and Jim Paine out of the county almshouse and put them into it . " Men of too good birth , " they said , " to herd ...
... live . " So far only two rooms in the home were filled . The towns - people raised money enough to take old Sam Darrah and Jim Paine out of the county almshouse and put them into it . " Men of too good birth , " they said , " to herd ...
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... live anywhere else . " " I can't understand how anybody can spend affection on a house ! " interrupted Mrs. Cross testily . " I require that my home shall have the best plumbing and every modern convenience . Then I am satisfied with it ...
... live anywhere else . " " I can't understand how anybody can spend affection on a house ! " interrupted Mrs. Cross testily . " I require that my home shall have the best plumbing and every modern convenience . Then I am satisfied with it ...
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Page 721 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
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Page 719 - From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity.