Memorials: And Other Papers, Bind 1Ticknor & Fields, 1856 |
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Side xi
... advantages ( as , by way of example , for acces- sion of territory which adds nothing to the security of a frontier ) , and still more when it is fought simply as a gladiator's trial of na- tional prowess . This is the principle upon ...
... advantages ( as , by way of example , for acces- sion of territory which adds nothing to the security of a frontier ) , and still more when it is fought simply as a gladiator's trial of na- tional prowess . This is the principle upon ...
Side xv
... advantage . Whereas the author of these memoirs clearly writes under the coërcion and restraint of a notorious reality , that would not suffer him to ignore or to modify the leading facts . Then , as to the objection that few people or ...
... advantage . Whereas the author of these memoirs clearly writes under the coërcion and restraint of a notorious reality , that would not suffer him to ignore or to modify the leading facts . Then , as to the objection that few people or ...
Side 30
... , there is an unintentional advantage taken from the traditional name of lion , as though the Cape lion were such as that which ranges the torrid zone . taste . But easily I slipped off into another key 30 THE ORPHAN HEIRESS .
... , there is an unintentional advantage taken from the traditional name of lion , as though the Cape lion were such as that which ranges the torrid zone . taste . But easily I slipped off into another key 30 THE ORPHAN HEIRESS .
Side 44
... advantages , as suitors for the favor of two great heiresses ; and , secondly , manners exquisitely polished . Looking to that last requisition , it seems romantic to mention , that the lady selected for the post , with the fullest ...
... advantages , as suitors for the favor of two great heiresses ; and , secondly , manners exquisitely polished . Looking to that last requisition , it seems romantic to mention , that the lady selected for the post , with the fullest ...
Side 45
... advantages of youth , must have been resplendent . I , who had known her all my life , down to my sixteenth year ( during which year she died ) , and who naturally , therefore , referred her origin back to some remote ancestral ...
... advantages of youth , must have been resplendent . I , who had known her all my life , down to my sixteenth year ( during which year she died ) , and who naturally , therefore , referred her origin back to some remote ancestral ...
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