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... thought , without observing , the chintz chairs in the best drawing - room uncovered ( my dear mother was the tidiest woman in the world ) , my father suddenly discovered that there was to be a great book- sale , twenty miles off ...
... thought , without observing , the chintz chairs in the best drawing - room uncovered ( my dear mother was the tidiest woman in the world ) , my father suddenly discovered that there was to be a great book- sale , twenty miles off ...
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... thought over it , and tried to puzzle out the meaning ; for he had a way of suggesting , not teaching - putting things into my head , and then leaving them to work out their own problems . I remember a special instance with respect to ...
... thought over it , and tried to puzzle out the meaning ; for he had a way of suggesting , not teaching - putting things into my head , and then leaving them to work out their own problems . I remember a special instance with respect to ...
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... thought Sisty himself - stay at home , and you will see its head grow bigger and bigger , and its body thinner and thinner - eh , Mr Squills ? -till the mind take all nourishment from the frame , and the frame , in turn , stint or make ...
... thought Sisty himself - stay at home , and you will see its head grow bigger and bigger , and its body thinner and thinner - eh , Mr Squills ? -till the mind take all nourishment from the frame , and the frame , in turn , stint or make ...
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... thought you had safely under your foot , turns up on the table - so with this advertisement suddenly turned up Uncle Jack . With inconceivable satisfaction did the new landowner settle himself in his comfortable homestead . The farm ...
... thought you had safely under your foot , turns up on the table - so with this advertisement suddenly turned up Uncle Jack . With inconceivable satisfaction did the new landowner settle himself in his comfortable homestead . The farm ...
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... thought he would repose his limbs under my father's trabes citrea , which the ingenious W. S. Landor opines should be translated " mahogany . " You never saw a more charming man than Uncle Jack . All plump people are more popular than ...
... thought he would repose his limbs under my father's trabes citrea , which the ingenious W. S. Landor opines should be translated " mahogany . " You never saw a more charming man than Uncle Jack . All plump people are more popular than ...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volume 1 Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton Visualização integral - 1892 |
The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volume 1 Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton Visualização integral - 1892 |
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Página 193 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Página 331 - He had, to a morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem or the love of his species; only the hard wish to succeed— not shine, not serve— succeed, that he might have the right to despise a world which galled his self-conceit.
Página 25 - I have narrated, he gave me one far exceeding in value those usually bestowed on children, — it was a beautiful large domino-box in cut ivory, painted and gilt. This domino-box was my delight. I was never weary of playing at dominoes with Mrs. Primmins, and I slept with the box under my pillow. "Ah...
Página 331 - Caxtons.' Passion, in him, comprehended -many of the worst emotions which militate against human happiness. You could not contradict him, but you raised quick choler; you could not speak of wealth, but his cheek paled with gnawing envy. The astonishing natural advantages of this poor boy— his beauty, his readiness, the daring spirit that breathed around him like a fiery atmosphere— had raised his constitutional self-confidence into an arrogance that turned his very claims to admiration into prejudices...
Página 40 - A more lying, round-about, puzzleheaded delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system of spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood.