Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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Page 17
... kind of paid official . He was tutor , library , mentor , and chaplain of Nero . Long afterward a great invoice of family philosophers was imported from Arabia and Asia . They were no more infamous than Seneca THE SUBMERGED CENTURIES . 17.
... kind of paid official . He was tutor , library , mentor , and chaplain of Nero . Long afterward a great invoice of family philosophers was imported from Arabia and Asia . They were no more infamous than Seneca THE SUBMERGED CENTURIES . 17.
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... kind of craft these two energetic leaders sunk thirteen hundred , but the lawful commerce had long been busy in destroying the Roman intellect and its once patriotic heart . Cæsar destroyed the piracy of goods and money , but he did not ...
... kind of craft these two energetic leaders sunk thirteen hundred , but the lawful commerce had long been busy in destroying the Roman intellect and its once patriotic heart . Cæsar destroyed the piracy of goods and money , but he did not ...
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... kind attentions the saint came to a little stream , but he threw his cloak on the water and on that dear little bridge he moved , perhaps a two hundred - pound fairy , from bank to bank . To This form of literature filled up the deep ...
... kind attentions the saint came to a little stream , but he threw his cloak on the water and on that dear little bridge he moved , perhaps a two hundred - pound fairy , from bank to bank . To This form of literature filled up the deep ...
Page 43
... flung over the thought . Let me il- lustrate . While Madame Recamier lived the great men of France - generals , states- men , scientific men , literary men of every kind , and even clergymen met in her par- lors 2-4 THE NOVEL . 43.
... flung over the thought . Let me il- lustrate . While Madame Recamier lived the great men of France - generals , states- men , scientific men , literary men of every kind , and even clergymen met in her par- lors 2-4 THE NOVEL . 43.
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David Swing. kind , and even clergymen met in her par- lors every day at four o'clock . Not be- cause they loved her or she them — for it is said she loved nobody deeply , and they met , not because of her conversation , for she said ...
David Swing. kind , and even clergymen met in her par- lors every day at four o'clock . Not be- cause they loved her or she them — for it is said she loved nobody deeply , and they met , not because of her conversation , for she said ...
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