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... HOPE . A BOOK OF POEMS , RE- FERRING TO CHILDHOOD . In one volume , 8vo , price $ 2.00 . REJECTED ADDRESSES . By HORACE and JAMES SMITH . In one volume , 16mo , price 50 cents . ALDERBROOK . BY FANNY FORESTER . In two vols . 12mo ...
... HOPE . A BOOK OF POEMS , RE- FERRING TO CHILDHOOD . In one volume , 8vo , price $ 2.00 . REJECTED ADDRESSES . By HORACE and JAMES SMITH . In one volume , 16mo , price 50 cents . ALDERBROOK . BY FANNY FORESTER . In two vols . 12mo ...
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... hope of much longer escaping with impunity . Public vengeance was now awakened ; the imperial troops were marching from every quarter upon the same centre ; and the slave became sensible that in a very short space of time he must be ...
... hope of much longer escaping with impunity . Public vengeance was now awakened ; the imperial troops were marching from every quarter upon the same centre ; and the slave became sensible that in a very short space of time he must be ...
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... Hope , ) a ludicrous passage , in which one felicitous blunder did Cæsar a better service than all the truths which Greece and Rome could have furnished . In our own experience , we once witnessed a blunder about as gross . The present ...
... Hope , ) a ludicrous passage , in which one felicitous blunder did Cæsar a better service than all the truths which Greece and Rome could have furnished . In our own experience , we once witnessed a blunder about as gross . The present ...
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... hope from features so fitted for command , sometimes boding an early blight to promises so prematurely magnificent . That she had something of her son's aspiring character , or that he presumed so much in a mother of his , we learn from ...
... hope from features so fitted for command , sometimes boding an early blight to promises so prematurely magnificent . That she had something of her son's aspiring character , or that he presumed so much in a mother of his , we learn from ...
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... hope , nor any eminent example at that time , to countenance him in this struggle — which yet he pushed on in the most uncompromising style , and to the utmost verge of defiance . The subject of the contrast gives it a fur- ther ...
... hope , nor any eminent example at that time , to countenance him in this struggle — which yet he pushed on in the most uncompromising style , and to the utmost verge of defiance . The subject of the contrast gives it a fur- ther ...
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