The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces from Their Writings, Comprising the Best Features of Many Celebrated Compilations, Notably the Guernsey Collection, the De Puy Collection, the Ridpath Collection, All Carefully Rev. and Arranged by a Corps of the Most Capable Scholars, Volume 8John Clark Ridpath Globe publishing Company, 1898 - Literature |
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... mother , but all the same as I trot- ted toward the priest with a satchel on my back , I used to think , would it be ... mother's side . It seemed to me it would be cruel and cowardly to leave her . For she had but me in the world ...
... mother , but all the same as I trot- ted toward the priest with a satchel on my back , I used to think , would it be ... mother's side . It seemed to me it would be cruel and cowardly to leave her . For she had but me in the world ...
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... mother wishes it , and so it must be . " And I did my best not to look up to the jackdaws circling round the towers ... mother and grandmother decided for me , with the old notary him- self who lived at the corner , and made his ...
... mother wishes it , and so it must be . " And I did my best not to look up to the jackdaws circling round the towers ... mother and grandmother decided for me , with the old notary him- self who lived at the corner , and made his ...
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... mother ! One day in Orte chance gave me another fate than this of her desires . One fine sunrise on the morning of Palm Sunday I heard the sharp sound of a screeching fife , the metallic clash of cymbals , the shouts of boys , the ...
... mother ! One day in Orte chance gave me another fate than this of her desires . One fine sunrise on the morning of Palm Sunday I heard the sharp sound of a screeching fife , the metallic clash of cymbals , the shouts of boys , the ...
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... mother des- tined me to a notary's desk and wished me to be shut there all my life , pen in hand , sowing the seeds of all the hatreds , of all the crime , of all the sorrows of mankind , lighting up the flames of rage and of greed in ...
... mother des- tined me to a notary's desk and wished me to be shut there all my life , pen in hand , sowing the seeds of all the hatreds , of all the crime , of all the sorrows of mankind , lighting up the flames of rage and of greed in ...
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... home without my cloak , which these fellows had carried off . When they got to the door , my mother and the maid- servants began crying and bewailing . I was carried with some difficulty to a bath ; they washed me DEMOSTHENES.
... home without my cloak , which these fellows had carried off . When they got to the door , my mother and the maid- servants began crying and bewailing . I was carried with some difficulty to a bath ; they washed me DEMOSTHENES.
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