Leisure Hours in TownTicknor and Fields, 1863 - 437 pages |
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... to do something analogous to what it did . These essays have been to me a pleasant change , from the writing of many sermons . And even in leisure hours , if it be ( as Sydney Smith said ) " the nature of the animal 14 CONCERNING THE.
... to do something analogous to what it did . These essays have been to me a pleasant change , from the writing of many sermons . And even in leisure hours , if it be ( as Sydney Smith said ) " the nature of the animal 14 CONCERNING THE.
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... essays of an old friend , whom you knew in the days when he was a country parson , have somewhat changed their character , in consistence with his total change of life . But I have reason to cherish a quiet trust , that they have done ...
... essays of an old friend , whom you knew in the days when he was a country parson , have somewhat changed their character , in consistence with his total change of life . But I have reason to cherish a quiet trust , that they have done ...
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... essay this would be ! But it will not be so ; for as I try to grasp the thoughts I would set out , they melt away and elude It is like trying to catch and keep the rainbow hues you have seen the sunshine cast upon the spray of a ...
... essay this would be ! But it will not be so ; for as I try to grasp the thoughts I would set out , they melt away and elude It is like trying to catch and keep the rainbow hues you have seen the sunshine cast upon the spray of a ...
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... essay on Milton , not Macaulay the fairest and most promising of calves , but Macaulay the stateliest and most beautiful of oxen . Well , read over your essay now at thirty , and tell us what you think of it . And you , clever , warm ...
... essay on Milton , not Macaulay the fairest and most promising of calves , but Macaulay the stateliest and most beautiful of oxen . Well , read over your essay now at thirty , and tell us what you think of it . And you , clever , warm ...
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... essays you wrote when you were a boy at school ; look even at your earlier prize essays written at college ( though of these last I have something to say hereafter ) ; look at the letters you wrote home when away at school or even at ...
... essays you wrote when you were a boy at school ; look even at your earlier prize essays written at college ( though of these last I have something to say hereafter ) ; look at the letters you wrote home when away at school or even at ...
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