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... doubt . In his " Topographical Description of Boston , " pub- lished a quarter of a century ago , and eighty years after the monument was built , Dr. Shurtleff says that the inscriptions were ascribed to Judge Thomas Dawes , and adds ...
... doubt . In his " Topographical Description of Boston , " pub- lished a quarter of a century ago , and eighty years after the monument was built , Dr. Shurtleff says that the inscriptions were ascribed to Judge Thomas Dawes , and adds ...
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... doubt ; but these conflicting claims fur- nish additional proof of the soundness of the positions taken by Mr. Pierce in his very able paper on " Recollections as a Source of History , " read at our March meeting . Fortunately , however ...
... doubt ; but these conflicting claims fur- nish additional proof of the soundness of the positions taken by Mr. Pierce in his very able paper on " Recollections as a Source of History , " read at our March meeting . Fortunately , however ...
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... doubt in his mind , if not an actually contrary opinion . When the smoke of this great battle was lifting , if not altogether gone , at the opening of the new building of the Harvard Medical School , Dr. Holmes delivered an address ...
... doubt in his mind , if not an actually contrary opinion . When the smoke of this great battle was lifting , if not altogether gone , at the opening of the new building of the Harvard Medical School , Dr. Holmes delivered an address ...
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... doubt Dr. Holmes wanted to be esteemed a genuine poet ; and in the moments in which he pictured himself to himself in the most pleasing light , it was as a poet . He occasionally spoke of his manner of writing poetry , to the effect ...
... doubt Dr. Holmes wanted to be esteemed a genuine poet ; and in the moments in which he pictured himself to himself in the most pleasing light , it was as a poet . He occasionally spoke of his manner of writing poetry , to the effect ...
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... doubt that he was going to score another success ; but he began the new papers with a delightful sentence , which may be described as a sort of modest compliment to himself : " The question is whether there is anything left for me , the ...
... doubt that he was going to score another success ; but he began the new papers with a delightful sentence , which may be described as a sort of modest compliment to himself : " The question is whether there is anything left for me , the ...
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