Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2Dent, 1930 |
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Page 348
... common we admit ; but they were common just as all wickedness to which there is strong temptation always was and always will be common . They were common just as theft , cheating , perjury , adultery have always been common . They were ...
... common we admit ; but they were common just as all wickedness to which there is strong temptation always was and always will be common . They were common just as theft , cheating , perjury , adultery have always been common . They were ...
Page 542
... common spy , a common tattler , a humble companion without the excuse of poverty , and to tell a hundred stories of his own pertness and folly , and of the insults which his pertness and folly brought upon him . It was natural that he ...
... common spy , a common tattler , a humble companion without the excuse of poverty , and to tell a hundred stories of his own pertness and folly , and of the insults which his pertness and folly brought upon him . It was natural that he ...
Page 601
... common standard . Among the eighteen hundred thousand human beings who inhabit London , there is not one who could be taken by his acquaintance for another ; yet we may walk from Paddington to Mile End without seeing one person in whom ...
... common standard . Among the eighteen hundred thousand human beings who inhabit London , there is not one who could be taken by his acquaintance for another ; yet we may walk from Paddington to Mile End without seeing one person in whom ...
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