Littell's Living Age, Том 31Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1851 |
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... means of letting loose a current of slowly accumu lated sentiment . Witness the lines ON AN INFANT'S HAND . What is an infant but a germ , Prophetic of a distant term ? Whose present claim of love consists In that great power that ...
... means of letting loose a current of slowly accumu lated sentiment . Witness the lines ON AN INFANT'S HAND . What is an infant but a germ , Prophetic of a distant term ? Whose present claim of love consists In that great power that ...
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... means by which such increased facility and power of drawing and manipulation are obtained by an artist really zeal- ous in his profession . The reverence for truth shown in the slightest of these sketches is quite astonishing . The ...
... means by which such increased facility and power of drawing and manipulation are obtained by an artist really zeal- ous in his profession . The reverence for truth shown in the slightest of these sketches is quite astonishing . The ...
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... means of procuring such documents . The Balcarras Papers , bound up in nine thick volumes , were collected by John Lindsay of Menmuir , secretary of state to James VI . , who died in 1598. He was a clergyman and a judge , and appears to ...
... means of procuring such documents . The Balcarras Papers , bound up in nine thick volumes , were collected by John Lindsay of Menmuir , secretary of state to James VI . , who died in 1598. He was a clergyman and a judge , and appears to ...
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... means of rendering the cultivation of the soil more profitable and less laborious . The au- What with the slush of the melted snow and the thor's design is to introduce into our common schools frequent torrents of rain , the unpaved ...
... means of rendering the cultivation of the soil more profitable and less laborious . The au- What with the slush of the melted snow and the thor's design is to introduce into our common schools frequent torrents of rain , the unpaved ...
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... means forgotten . On the other hand , my country was in deep distress and in great danger . Her dearest interests would be involved in the relations she might form with foreign nations . My own plan of these relations had been ...
... means forgotten . On the other hand , my country was in deep distress and in great danger . Her dearest interests would be involved in the relations she might form with foreign nations . My own plan of these relations had been ...
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