Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesGibbings, 1894 - 1104 páginas |
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... fact is mentioned not only as an acknowledgment of courteous permission to reproduce them , but also as affording an opportunity to remark that , in the last year or so , some of these articles have been pretty freely levied upon by ...
... fact is mentioned not only as an acknowledgment of courteous permission to reproduce them , but also as affording an opportunity to remark that , in the last year or so , some of these articles have been pretty freely levied upon by ...
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... fact that Abolitionist was a term of contempt which the Democrats usually applied to all Republicans , and which the men of the South applied indiscriminately to all Northerners who were not Democrats . The word itself , even , in ...
... fact that Abolitionist was a term of contempt which the Democrats usually applied to all Republicans , and which the men of the South applied indiscriminately to all Northerners who were not Democrats . The word itself , even , in ...
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... fact in ancient French law a disgraceful punishment , inflicted for the most part on offenders against public decency . The offender was stripped to his shirt , when the hangman put a rope about his neck and a taper in his hand 50 HANDY ...
... fact in ancient French law a disgraceful punishment , inflicted for the most part on offenders against public decency . The offender was stripped to his shirt , when the hangman put a rope about his neck and a taper in his hand 50 HANDY ...
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... fact that it was made by a friend at a time when Thompson was hesitating whether to accept a seat in the House of Commons , and is said to have decided him to do so . TOUCHET , MARIE ( mistress of Charles IX . ) : Je charme tout ( I ...
... fact that it was made by a friend at a time when Thompson was hesitating whether to accept a seat in the House of Commons , and is said to have decided him to do so . TOUCHET , MARIE ( mistress of Charles IX . ) : Je charme tout ( I ...
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... facts , with the similarity of name , sug- gested their eventual development into the geese which frequent the coast ... fact that physicians ordered invalids and the insane to go to Bath , to drink the medicinal waters there . Bath was ...
... facts , with the similarity of name , sug- gested their eventual development into the geese which frequent the coast ... fact that physicians ordered invalids and the insane to go to Bath , to drink the medicinal waters there . Bath was ...
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