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... clear ( in spite of the wishes of author and publishers ) that I have any right to call myself editor , for the book is as thoroughly edited already as a book need be . What between dear old Parson Wilbur - with his little vanities and ...
... clear ( in spite of the wishes of author and publishers ) that I have any right to call myself editor , for the book is as thoroughly edited already as a book need be . What between dear old Parson Wilbur - with his little vanities and ...
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... clear , and the volume of a con- venient and attractive size . . . . In reading this elegantly executed work , it has seemed to us that a passage or two might have been retrenched with advantage , and that the general style of diction ...
... clear , and the volume of a con- venient and attractive size . . . . In reading this elegantly executed work , it has seemed to us that a passage or two might have been retrenched with advantage , and that the general style of diction ...
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... clear enough , even to eyes peering myopic through horn - lensed editorial spectacles , but naught farther ? O purblind , well - meaning , altogether fuscous Mele- sigenes - Wilbur , there are things in him incommunicable by stroke of ...
... clear enough , even to eyes peering myopic through horn - lensed editorial spectacles , but naught farther ? O purblind , well - meaning , altogether fuscous Mele- sigenes - Wilbur , there are things in him incommunicable by stroke of ...
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... clear . ] Ob't die [ illegible ; looks like xviii . ] . . . iii [ prob . 1693. ] paynt deseased seinte : A friend and [ fath ] er untoe all yo opreast , Hee gave ye wicked familists noe reast , When Satan bl ] ewe his Antinomian blaste ...
... clear . ] Ob't die [ illegible ; looks like xviii . ] . . . iii [ prob . 1693. ] paynt deseased seinte : A friend and [ fath ] er untoe all yo opreast , Hee gave ye wicked familists noe reast , When Satan bl ] ewe his Antinomian blaste ...
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... clear ez figgers , Clear ez one an ' one make two , Chaps thet make black slaves o ' niggers Want to make wite slaves o ' you . Tell ye jest the eend I've come to Arter cipherin ' plaguy smart , An ' it makes a handy sum , tu , Any gump ...
... clear ez figgers , Clear ez one an ' one make two , Chaps thet make black slaves o ' niggers Want to make wite slaves o ' you . Tell ye jest the eend I've come to Arter cipherin ' plaguy smart , An ' it makes a handy sum , tu , Any gump ...
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Страница xvii - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.