James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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... heart in the task . I now know about the steam - engine , and have also had revealed to me one of the finest characters that ever graced the earth . For all this I am deeply grateful to the publishers . I am indebted to friends , Messrs ...
... heart in the task . I now know about the steam - engine , and have also had revealed to me one of the finest characters that ever graced the earth . For all this I am deeply grateful to the publishers . I am indebted to friends , Messrs ...
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... heart , and not less distinguished " for her sound sense and good manners than for her " cheerful temper and excellent housewifery . " Her likeness is thus drawn , and all that we have read elsewhere concerning her confirms the truth of ...
... heart , and not less distinguished " for her sound sense and good manners than for her " cheerful temper and excellent housewifery . " Her likeness is thus drawn , and all that we have read elsewhere concerning her confirms the truth of ...
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... heart and all the sensibility and enthusiasm of the Celt , easily touched to fine issues . She was a Scot of the Scots and a storehouse of border lore , as became a daughter of her house , Muirhead of Lachop . Here , then , we have ...
... heart and all the sensibility and enthusiasm of the Celt , easily touched to fine issues . She was a Scot of the Scots and a storehouse of border lore , as became a daughter of her house , Muirhead of Lachop . Here , then , we have ...
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... boy absorbed by , Wallace , The Bruce , and Sir John Grahame , is fired by the story of the Martyrs , has at heart page after page of the country's ballads , and also , in more recent times , is at home CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH 15.
... boy absorbed by , Wallace , The Bruce , and Sir John Grahame , is fired by the story of the Martyrs , has at heart page after page of the country's ballads , and also , in more recent times , is at home CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH 15.
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... hearts , wise heads , and influence strong to aid , stand ready at every turn to take modest merit by the hand and give it the only aid needed , opportunity to speak , through results , for itself . So London was de- termined upon ...
... hearts , wise heads , and influence strong to aid , stand ready at every turn to take modest merit by the hand and give it the only aid needed , opportunity to speak , through results , for itself . So London was de- termined upon ...
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