Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc. for Home and School UseGinn & Company, 1891 - 119 Seiten |
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... short time given to English Literature in the High Schools , few authors can be studied , and only selections from their works can be critically read . The main purpose , then , of this brief course of study should be to form and ...
... short time given to English Literature in the High Schools , few authors can be studied , and only selections from their works can be critically read . The main purpose , then , of this brief course of study should be to form and ...
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... short one related by the captain . 105 “ As I was once sailing , " said he , " in a fine stout ship across the banks of Newfoundland , one of those heavy fogs which prevail in those parts rendered it impossible for us to see far ahead ...
... short one related by the captain . 105 “ As I was once sailing , " said he , " in a fine stout ship across the banks of Newfoundland , one of those heavy fogs which prevail in those parts rendered it impossible for us to see far ahead ...
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... spare ; parsimonia , or parcimonia , spar- ingness , frugality ) . The word usually denotes an excess of frugality , nig- gardliness , stinginess . short years , a name which once aspired to occupy 14 THE SKETCH - BOOK .
... spare ; parsimonia , or parcimonia , spar- ingness , frugality ) . The word usually denotes an excess of frugality , nig- gardliness , stinginess . short years , a name which once aspired to occupy 14 THE SKETCH - BOOK .
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... short years , a name which once aspired to occupy ages of the world's thought and admiration . 85 95 I passed some time in Poets ' Corner , which occupies an end of one of the transepts or cross aisles of the abbey . The monuments are ...
... short years , a name which once aspired to occupy ages of the world's thought and admiration . 85 95 I passed some time in Poets ' Corner , which occupies an end of one of the transepts or cross aisles of the abbey . The monuments are ...
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... short memories , and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors . " History fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy ; the inscription moulders from the tablet ; the statue falls from the pedestal ...
... short memories , and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors . " History fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy ; the inscription moulders from the tablet ; the statue falls from the pedestal ...
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