Anglo-American Literature and Manners, etc. [Translated by Donald Macleod.]Charles Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... observation and industry . It is as we have just said a country without imagination because without memo- ries . Countries grown old in sorrow , Ireland , Scotland , for instance , lend much to the imagination . They have bought that ...
... observation and industry . It is as we have just said a country without imagination because without memo- ries . Countries grown old in sorrow , Ireland , Scotland , for instance , lend much to the imagination . They have bought that ...
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... observing is this the immense surprise of the good Morris in presence of this legislative gentleman , Morris , who had himself just been a legislator and the founder of a state . He makes a note of this curious and uneasy individual ...
... observing is this the immense surprise of the good Morris in presence of this legislative gentleman , Morris , who had himself just been a legislator and the founder of a state . He makes a note of this curious and uneasy individual ...
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... observing the abuses of their monarchical form , imagine that everything must go the better in proportion as it recedes from the present establishments , and in their closets they make men exactly suited to their systems ; but unluckily ...
... observing the abuses of their monarchical form , imagine that everything must go the better in proportion as it recedes from the present establishments , and in their closets they make men exactly suited to their systems ; but unluckily ...
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... observations of Morris , we will content ourselves with copying certain lines relative to the life of the émigrés abroad . " July 11th . - I call on the Count Woranzow , and show him the draft of a manifesto by the new King of France ...
... observations of Morris , we will content ourselves with copying certain lines relative to the life of the émigrés abroad . " July 11th . - I call on the Count Woranzow , and show him the draft of a manifesto by the new King of France ...
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... observation , not because I believe it true , but because I will not impeach the reasons he may find it conve- nient to give to himself for his own conduct , should he here- after be employed in our service . " What was false and ...
... observation , not because I believe it true , but because I will not impeach the reasons he may find it conve- nient to give to himself for his own conduct , should he here- after be employed in our service . " What was false and ...
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