The Best of All Good CompanyHoulston and Sons, 1872 - 472 Seiten |
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... never weak on great occasions, as the judicial mind so often is. There was something feminine in the quality that led him to the right verdict, the appropriate word, the core of the heart of the question in hand. The air about him ...
... never weak on great occasions, as the judicial mind so often is. There was something feminine in the quality that led him to the right verdict, the appropriate word, the core of the heart of the question in hand. The air about him ...
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... never fathomed . Charles Dickens , as all writers about him have testified , was so graciously as well as lavishly endowed by Nature that every utterance was sunny , every sentiment pure , every emotional opinion instinctively right ...
... never fathomed . Charles Dickens , as all writers about him have testified , was so graciously as well as lavishly endowed by Nature that every utterance was sunny , every sentiment pure , every emotional opinion instinctively right ...
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... never saw such an illustration of the power of purse , or felt so degraded and debased by its contemplation , since I have had eyes and ears . The absurdity of the thing was too horrible to laugh at . It was perfectly overwhelming . But ...
... never saw such an illustration of the power of purse , or felt so degraded and debased by its contemplation , since I have had eyes and ears . The absurdity of the thing was too horrible to laugh at . It was perfectly overwhelming . But ...
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... never met again . But how full of wise consideration is all this day spent with the invalid friend , in the midst of merriment , even to the ridiculous remembrance " presented in some exaggerated light , to divert him . " Mr. Charles ...
... never met again . But how full of wise consideration is all this day spent with the invalid friend , in the midst of merriment , even to the ridiculous remembrance " presented in some exaggerated light , to divert him . " Mr. Charles ...
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... never describe ' a lady , ' and by ladies that he could never sketch the character of ' a gentleman ; ' but we have always observed , that when put to the proof these male and female critics failed lamentably to establish their case ...
... never describe ' a lady , ' and by ladies that he could never sketch the character of ' a gentleman ; ' but we have always observed , that when put to the proof these male and female critics failed lamentably to establish their case ...
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