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... GOING OVER , WHAT TO DO AND AVOID ON SHIPBOARD , LOOK - OUTS AND LAND - MAKINGS , 15 25 39 49 ENTERING FOREIGN COUNTRIES , 67 SHORT TRIPS IN IRELAND , 66 73 " " IN SCOTLAND , IN ENGLAND ( AND WALES ) , 93 122 CROSSING FROM ENGLAND TO ...
... GOING OVER , WHAT TO DO AND AVOID ON SHIPBOARD , LOOK - OUTS AND LAND - MAKINGS , 15 25 39 49 ENTERING FOREIGN COUNTRIES , 67 SHORT TRIPS IN IRELAND , 66 73 " " IN SCOTLAND , IN ENGLAND ( AND WALES ) , 93 122 CROSSING FROM ENGLAND TO ...
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... going to Europe " was principally confined to the wealthy few or those driven by busi- ness demands , it was at once an easy and a tempting thing to do , to add to the supposed importance of what had been done , by overstating the cost ...
... going to Europe " was principally confined to the wealthy few or those driven by busi- ness demands , it was at once an easy and a tempting thing to do , to add to the supposed importance of what had been done , by overstating the cost ...
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... going no step beyond the latter city , found the $ 8,000 ( gold ) which he had taken with him , insufficient , and drew on New York for $ 2,000 additional . Very possibly these figures do not even approach the amount of money spent by ...
... going no step beyond the latter city , found the $ 8,000 ( gold ) which he had taken with him , insufficient , and drew on New York for $ 2,000 additional . Very possibly these figures do not even approach the amount of money spent by ...
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... going first - class and demanding all the comforts , and yet indisposed to waste money on costly luxuries ? To answer that question , then , as intelligibly as may be consistent with brevity . For six to seven weeks ' absence from home ...
... going first - class and demanding all the comforts , and yet indisposed to waste money on costly luxuries ? To answer that question , then , as intelligibly as may be consistent with brevity . For six to seven weeks ' absence from home ...
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... going beyond the computation , if gross negligences do not allow , or costly luxuries or yet more costly vices do not induce , the additional expenditure . Common sense , without even the aid of experience , will indicate that there are ...
... going beyond the computation , if gross negligences do not allow , or costly luxuries or yet more costly vices do not induce , the additional expenditure . Common sense , without even the aid of experience , will indicate that there are ...
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Page 73 - On this I ponder, where'er I wander, And thus grow fonder, sweet Cork, of thee ; With thy bells of Shandon that sound so grand on The pleasant waters of the River Lee.
Page 418 - ... Boston philosopher of the last century, whose visit to Philadelphia is still remembered in that city,) set himself at work to contrive a limb which should take the place of the one he had lost, fulfilling its functions and counterfeiting its aspect so far as possible. The result was the " Palmer leg," one of the most unquestionable triumphs of American ingenuity. Its victorious march has been unimpeded by any serious obs'tacle since it first stepped into public notice. The inventor was introduced...