Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 54; Volume 117Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1891 |
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Page 28
... Perhaps there were five or six hundred books in the room , the majority of which were unspeakably uninteresting . There were many old works on agriculture , a great number of theological treatises , Hume and Smollett's Histories , a ...
... Perhaps there were five or six hundred books in the room , the majority of which were unspeakably uninteresting . There were many old works on agriculture , a great number of theological treatises , Hume and Smollett's Histories , a ...
Page 31
... perhaps ad visable to let this old man have something , or he might grow desperate when despera- tion would be dangerous . 66 So he smiled a bland refusal to the auctioneer , and that worthy , after trying in vain for about five minutes ...
... perhaps ad visable to let this old man have something , or he might grow desperate when despera- tion would be dangerous . 66 So he smiled a bland refusal to the auctioneer , and that worthy , after trying in vain for about five minutes ...
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... perhaps at that moment the happiest of all mankind . " " " I should like to have had that fine volume of Shakespeare for my daugh- ters , " said the auctioneer , as he handed Gibbs the receipt , " but you are such a determined bidder ...
... perhaps at that moment the happiest of all mankind . " " " I should like to have had that fine volume of Shakespeare for my daugh- ters , " said the auctioneer , as he handed Gibbs the receipt , " but you are such a determined bidder ...
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... perhaps judged a little by the plainness and simplicity of her dress . But the father and daughter might be criminals flying from justice for all he knew . An attempt he had made to find out from which quarter of the globe the old man ...
... perhaps judged a little by the plainness and simplicity of her dress . But the father and daughter might be criminals flying from justice for all he knew . An attempt he had made to find out from which quarter of the globe the old man ...
Page 44
... perhaps his hard day's fishing in the high wind , perhaps the agitation in his mind , perhaps even the glass of whiskey aforesaid stood his friends . After tossing about in a restless way for twenty minutes he dropped into a deep and ...
... perhaps his hard day's fishing in the high wind , perhaps the agitation in his mind , perhaps even the glass of whiskey aforesaid stood his friends . After tossing about in a restless way for twenty minutes he dropped into a deep and ...
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