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... volumes ! How these hours of uninterrupted intellectual enjoy- ment , so tranquil and independent , repay one for the ennui and disappointment too often experi- enced in the intercourse of society ! How they serve to bring back the ...
... volumes ! How these hours of uninterrupted intellectual enjoy- ment , so tranquil and independent , repay one for the ennui and disappointment too often experi- enced in the intercourse of society ! How they serve to bring back the ...
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... volume made up of his Knick erbocker history and the legends relating to the region of New York and the Hudson would survive as long as anything that has been produced in this country . The philosophical student of the origin of New ...
... volume made up of his Knick erbocker history and the legends relating to the region of New York and the Hudson would survive as long as anything that has been produced in this country . The philosophical student of the origin of New ...
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... volume is more amusing and at the same time more poetic and romantic than the story of " Governor Manco and the Soldier , ” in which this legend is used to cover the exploit of a dare - devil contrabandista . But it is too long to quote ...
... volume is more amusing and at the same time more poetic and romantic than the story of " Governor Manco and the Soldier , ” in which this legend is used to cover the exploit of a dare - devil contrabandista . But it is too long to quote ...
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... volume is certainly not the least valuable of the three that constitute the series , so far as it has at present progressed ; and of the series , as a whole , it may be said that if the succeeding volumes are of the same high order of ...
... volume is certainly not the least valuable of the three that constitute the series , so far as it has at present progressed ; and of the series , as a whole , it may be said that if the succeeding volumes are of the same high order of ...
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... volume . - New York Tribune . " JAMES MONROE . " In clearness of style , and in all points of literary workman . ship , from cover to cover , the volume is well - nigh perfect . There is also a calmness of judgment , a correctness of ...
... volume . - New York Tribune . " JAMES MONROE . " In clearness of style , and in all points of literary workman . ship , from cover to cover , the volume is well - nigh perfect . There is also a calmness of judgment , a correctness of ...
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