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... appear the Autobiography , originally published in Tait's Magazine , — and the Sketches of Literary Men , including Wordsworth , Coleridge , Southey , Lamb and others , collected from various sources . Finny Mechis They 1853 Arne D ...
... appear the Autobiography , originally published in Tait's Magazine , — and the Sketches of Literary Men , including Wordsworth , Coleridge , Southey , Lamb and others , collected from various sources . Finny Mechis They 1853 Arne D ...
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... appears to point . And a singular coincidence appears between this dream and a little anecdote brought down to us , as having actually occurred in Rome about twenty - four hours before his death . A little bird , which by some is ...
... appears to point . And a singular coincidence appears between this dream and a little anecdote brought down to us , as having actually occurred in Rome about twenty - four hours before his death . A little bird , which by some is ...
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... appear that he cared much by whom it was undertaken , provided only there seemed to be any sufficient resources for carrying it through , and for sustaining the first collision with the regular forces of the existing government . He ...
... appear that he cared much by whom it was undertaken , provided only there seemed to be any sufficient resources for carrying it through , and for sustaining the first collision with the regular forces of the existing government . He ...
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... appear- ance three centuries afterwards , in a work of the Emperor Julian's . He was a most accomplished horseman , and a master ( peritissimus ) in the use of arms . But , notwithstanding his skill in horsemanship , it seems that ...
... appear- ance three centuries afterwards , in a work of the Emperor Julian's . He was a most accomplished horseman , and a master ( peritissimus ) in the use of arms . But , notwithstanding his skill in horsemanship , it seems that ...
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... appears even to us at this day , and might well there- fore appear to his contemporaries , truly astonishing . A distance of one hundred miles was no extraordinary day's journey for him in a rheda , such as we have described it . So ...
... appears even to us at this day , and might well there- fore appear to his contemporaries , truly astonishing . A distance of one hundred miles was no extraordinary day's journey for him in a rheda , such as we have described it . So ...
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De Quincey's Writings: Essays on Philosophical Writers and Other Men ..., Bind 1 Thomas De Quincey Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2006 |
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