The Life and Times of Seargent Smith PrentissJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1884 - 442 páginas |
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... believe , is the experience of nine - tenths of visitors at their first sight of Niagara . It is only when revisited after the first view that their awful sublimity fully impresses itself upon our minds . When we return and see the ...
... believe , is the experience of nine - tenths of visitors at their first sight of Niagara . It is only when revisited after the first view that their awful sublimity fully impresses itself upon our minds . When we return and see the ...
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... believe , is peculiar to our great river . It is not exactly a floating - palace , but it is a floating- house of transportation , and , like a politician , always floats with the current . Huge side - pieces , sometimes hewn out of ...
... believe , is peculiar to our great river . It is not exactly a floating - palace , but it is a floating- house of transportation , and , like a politician , always floats with the current . Huge side - pieces , sometimes hewn out of ...
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... believe I'm going blind ; I can't find any- thing ! " During all this period Prentiss was , so to speak , a voracious reader , and devoured the current literature of the day . The literary sky was still blazing with stars of the first ...
... believe I'm going blind ; I can't find any- thing ! " During all this period Prentiss was , so to speak , a voracious reader , and devoured the current literature of the day . The literary sky was still blazing with stars of the first ...
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... the necessity of its vindication , how nobly he struggled to preserve it when it was ruthlessly trampled under foot in the house of its creators and friends . CHAPTER V. EVERY clime , I believe , has its 54 THE LIFE AND TIMES OF.
... the necessity of its vindication , how nobly he struggled to preserve it when it was ruthlessly trampled under foot in the house of its creators and friends . CHAPTER V. EVERY clime , I believe , has its 54 THE LIFE AND TIMES OF.
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Joseph Dunbar Shields. CHAPTER V. EVERY clime , I believe , has its peculiar local scourge . The Alps have the goitre ; the northern climes , consumption ; the South , the scourge of the tropics ; but there is one epidemic disease which ...
Joseph Dunbar Shields. CHAPTER V. EVERY clime , I believe , has its peculiar local scourge . The Alps have the goitre ; the northern climes , consumption ; the South , the scourge of the tropics ; but there is one epidemic disease which ...
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