EothenW. Blackwood & Sons, 1879 - 371 páginas Eothen by Alexander William Kinglake, first published in 1900, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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... strange and casual readers . It is right to forewarn people ( and I have tried to do this as well as I can by my studiously unpromising title - page * ) that the book is quite superficial in its character . I have endeavoured to discard ...
... strange and casual readers . It is right to forewarn people ( and I have tried to do this as well as I can by my studiously unpromising title - page * ) that the book is quite superficial in its character . I have endeavoured to discard ...
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... strange spices . You long for some signs of life , and tread the ground more heavily , as though you would wake the sleep- ers with the heel of your boot ; but the foot falls noiseless upon the crumbling soil of an Eastern city , and ...
... strange spices . You long for some signs of life , and tread the ground more heavily , as though you would wake the sleep- ers with the heel of your boot ; but the foot falls noiseless upon the crumbling soil of an Eastern city , and ...
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... strange mystic friendships with the mere names of mountains , and seas , and continents , and mighty rivers ; you learn the ways of the planets , and transcend their narrow limits , and ask for the end of space ; you vex the electric ...
... strange mystic friendships with the mere names of mountains , and seas , and continents , and mighty rivers ; you learn the ways of the planets , and transcend their narrow limits , and ask for the end of space ; you vex the electric ...
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... an almost universal and unbroken testimony against the character of the people whose ancestors in- vented Virtue . And strange to say , the Greeks themselves do not attempt to disturb this general unanimity of 66 Eothen .
... an almost universal and unbroken testimony against the character of the people whose ancestors in- vented Virtue . And strange to say , the Greeks themselves do not attempt to disturb this general unanimity of 66 Eothen .
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... humble , are still better than none at all ; but the faith , and the forms , and the strange ecclesiastical literature which act so advantageously upon the mere clay of the Russian serf , seem to hang like lead 68 Eothen .
... humble , are still better than none at all ; but the faith , and the forms , and the strange ecclesiastical literature which act so advantageously upon the mere clay of the Russian serf , seem to hang like lead 68 Eothen .
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