Washington IrvingHoughton, Mifflin, 1881 - 304 páginas For fifty years Irving charmed and instructed the American people and was the author who held on the whole the first place in their affections. |
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... writes , " my disappointment , and my indignation , when I was told that the church , tomb , and all were utterly demolished in the time of the Revolution . Never did the Revolution , its authors and its consequences , receive a more ...
... writes , " my disappointment , and my indignation , when I was told that the church , tomb , and all were utterly demolished in the time of the Revolution . Never did the Revolution , its authors and its consequences , receive a more ...
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... filth and vermin . " God knows my mind never suffered so much as on this journey , " he writes , " when I saw such scenes of want and misery continually be fore me , without the power of effectually relieving them 36 WASHINGTON IRVING .
... filth and vermin . " God knows my mind never suffered so much as on this journey , " he writes , " when I saw such scenes of want and misery continually be fore me , without the power of effectually relieving them 36 WASHINGTON IRVING .
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... writes , " to account for it in so illiberal a manner ; it results from that merciful , that heavenly disposition , implanted in the fe- male bosom , which ever inclines in favor of the accused and the unfortunate . will smile at the ...
... writes , " to account for it in so illiberal a manner ; it results from that merciful , that heavenly disposition , implanted in the fe- male bosom , which ever inclines in favor of the accused and the unfortunate . will smile at the ...
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... writes to me : " He had dark gray eyes ; a handsome straight nose , which might perhaps be called large ; a broad , high , full forehead , and a small mouth . I should call him of medium height , about five feet eight and a half to nine ...
... writes to me : " He had dark gray eyes ; a handsome straight nose , which might perhaps be called large ; a broad , high , full forehead , and a small mouth . I should call him of medium height , about five feet eight and a half to nine ...
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... purgatory of an election , " he writes to the fair Republican , Miss Fairlie , who re- joiced in the defeat he and the Federals had sustained : ― " What makes me the more outrageous is , that SOCIETY AND " SALMAGUNDI . " 53.
... purgatory of an election , " he writes to the fair Republican , Miss Fairlie , who re- joiced in the defeat he and the Federals had sustained : ― " What makes me the more outrageous is , that SOCIETY AND " SALMAGUNDI . " 53.
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