The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and miscellaniesAMS Press, 1979 |
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... ordinary size . Nothing is more easy than to err in our notions of magnitude . The body of the Automaton is generally insulated , and having no means of immediately comparing it with any human form , we suffer ourselves to consider it ...
... ordinary size . Nothing is more easy than to err in our notions of magnitude . The body of the Automaton is generally insulated , and having no means of immediately comparing it with any human form , we suffer ourselves to consider it ...
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... ordinary process of stereotyping will be abolished . Through this ordinary process , a publisher , to be sure , is en- abled to keep on hand the means of producing edition after edition of any work the certainty of whose sale will ...
... ordinary process of stereotyping will be abolished . Through this ordinary process , a publisher , to be sure , is en- abled to keep on hand the means of producing edition after edition of any work the certainty of whose sale will ...
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... ordinary short accent ( ) should imply , what is the fact , that the feet themselves are not new feet , in any proper sense , but simply modifications of the feet , respectively , from which they derive their names . Thus a bastard ...
... ordinary short accent ( ) should imply , what is the fact , that the feet themselves are not new feet , in any proper sense , but simply modifications of the feet , respectively , from which they derive their names . Thus a bastard ...
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Maelzels ChessPlayer | 6 |
Preface and Introduction to the Conchologists | 95 |
The Philosophy of Furniture | 101 |
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