Life and Manners: From The Autobiography of an English Opium-eaterTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 - 347 sider |
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... in this instance , by her husband , although legally separated from her , all of whom were willing to believe that advantage had been taken of her little ac- - quaintance with English manners . I was present at the 28 LIFE AND MANNERS .
... in this instance , by her husband , although legally separated from her , all of whom were willing to believe that advantage had been taken of her little ac- - quaintance with English manners . I was present at the 28 LIFE AND MANNERS .
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... believe , but am not perfectly certain , that he was dead ; and I have no peerage within my reach by which I could settle that point . The fact is , my knowledge of the family had been too slight and interrupted to have fixed in my ...
... believe , but am not perfectly certain , that he was dead ; and I have no peerage within my reach by which I could settle that point . The fact is , my knowledge of the family had been too slight and interrupted to have fixed in my ...
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... believe , on a religious principle of repressing our vanity , and partly , also , in a spirit of unaffected modesty about everything connected with herself , ) had generally assigned the palm to myself . Lord M. protested loudly that ...
... believe , on a religious principle of repressing our vanity , and partly , also , in a spirit of unaffected modesty about everything connected with herself , ) had generally assigned the palm to myself . Lord M. protested loudly that ...
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... believe , I should have had some difficulty in avoiding so monstrous an - - generically ; that both express modes of intellectual power . But the kinds of power are not merely different , they are in polar opposition to each other ...
... believe , I should have had some difficulty in avoiding so monstrous an - - generically ; that both express modes of intellectual power . But the kinds of power are not merely different , they are in polar opposition to each other ...
Side 71
... believe that many people feel as I feel in such circumstances , viz . , derive from the spectacle the very grandest form of passionate sadness which can belong to any spectacle whatsoever . Sadness is not the exact word ; nor is there ...
... believe that many people feel as I feel in such circumstances , viz . , derive from the spectacle the very grandest form of passionate sadness which can belong to any spectacle whatsoever . Sadness is not the exact word ; nor is there ...
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Side 38 - Legions and cohorts, turms of horse and wings ; Or embassies from regions far remote, In various habits, on the Appian road, Or on the...