Chambers's Repository of Instructing and Amusing Tracts, Volumes 1-3W. and R. Chambers, 1852 - English literature |
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... never had any great preferment , and quietly cultivated a taste for literature . He maintained a contest , which was at the time much talked of , with Dacier , on the disputable meaning of the famous passage in Horace : difficile est ...
... never had any great preferment , and quietly cultivated a taste for literature . He maintained a contest , which was at the time much talked of , with Dacier , on the disputable meaning of the famous passage in Horace : difficile est ...
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... Never did young wife fulfil more heartily her marriage - vow , to love , honour , and obey her husband ; never had husband a more plastic form to mould into what shape should best please his fancy -two more loving birds never hid within ...
... Never did young wife fulfil more heartily her marriage - vow , to love , honour , and obey her husband ; never had husband a more plastic form to mould into what shape should best please his fancy -two more loving birds never hid within ...
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... never crossed her brain to believe her husband wicked . He was simply not all perfect , but yet most beautiful , most dear , most lovely of all the earth to her ! ' You are ill , Herbert dear ? ' she said one night , when her husband ...
... never crossed her brain to believe her husband wicked . He was simply not all perfect , but yet most beautiful , most dear , most lovely of all the earth to her ! ' You are ill , Herbert dear ? ' she said one night , when her husband ...
Contents
THE STRUGGLE IN THE CAUCASUS NO 9 | 9 |
CURIOSITIES OF CRIMINAL LAW 10 | 10 |
A LEGEND OF GHENT 11 | 11 |
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