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... deal of needless confusion about Weems and his book , for he was not a complex character , and neither he nor his writings are diffi- cult to value or understand . By profession a clergy- man or preacher , by nature an adventurer ...
... deal of needless confusion about Weems and his book , for he was not a complex character , and neither he nor his writings are diffi- cult to value or understand . By profession a clergy- man or preacher , by nature an adventurer ...
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... deal of mis- chief , and it is not at all impossible that he injured fruit - trees and confessed that he had done so . It may be accepted as certain that he rode and mas- tered many unbroken thoroughbred colts , and it is possible that ...
... deal of mis- chief , and it is not at all impossible that he injured fruit - trees and confessed that he had done so . It may be accepted as certain that he rode and mas- tered many unbroken thoroughbred colts , and it is possible that ...
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... deal all the day , I have lain down before the fire upon a little hay , straw , fodder , or a bearskin , whichever was to be had , with man , wife , and children , like dogs and cats ; and happy is he who gets the berth nearest the fire ...
... deal all the day , I have lain down before the fire upon a little hay , straw , fodder , or a bearskin , whichever was to be had , with man , wife , and children , like dogs and cats ; and happy is he who gets the berth nearest the fire ...
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... deal- ing with men , always a rare and precious gift . As in the little Barbadoes diary , so also in this journal , we see , and far more strongly , the penetration and perception that nothing could escape , and which set down 66 GEORGE ...
... deal- ing with men , always a rare and precious gift . As in the little Barbadoes diary , so also in this journal , we see , and far more strongly , the penetration and perception that nothing could escape , and which set down 66 GEORGE ...
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... deal . Silence in the fine and true sense is neither mere holding of the tongue nor an incapacity of expression . The greatly silent man is he who is not given to words for their own sake , and who never talks about him- self . Both ...
... deal . Silence in the fine and true sense is neither mere holding of the tongue nor an incapacity of expression . The greatly silent man is he who is not given to words for their own sake , and who never talks about him- self . Both ...
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