Peculiar: A Tale of the Great TransitionCarleton, 1864 - 500 páginas |
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Página 17
... wishes me to deposit the box where , in the event of her death , it will reach the daughter of the present Mrs. Berwick . Here is the direction on the envelope . " Pompilard read the words : " For Clara Aylesford Berwick , daughter of ...
... wishes me to deposit the box where , in the event of her death , it will reach the daughter of the present Mrs. Berwick . Here is the direction on the envelope . " Pompilard read the words : " For Clara Aylesford Berwick , daughter of ...
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... wishes you to put this letter in the post - office as soon as possible . If you can get the canary- bird , do it . I hope the doctor will be here soon . " Toussaint left at once to mail the invalid's letter and get possession of her ...
... wishes you to put this letter in the post - office as soon as possible . If you can get the canary- bird , do it . I hope the doctor will be here soon . " Toussaint left at once to mail the invalid's letter and get possession of her ...
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... wish to be true to his wife ; but his master may compel him to repudiate her and take another . He may object to being the agent of an injustice ; but the snap of the whip or the revolver may be the reply to any conscientious scruples ...
... wish to be true to his wife ; but his master may compel him to repudiate her and take another . He may object to being the agent of an injustice ; but the snap of the whip or the revolver may be the reply to any conscientious scruples ...
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... wish that you too , like this poor , torpid , parasitical creature , Corinna , might be a medium for outside spirits to influence and speak through . But beware ! You know not what you wish . Learn to prize your individuality . The wis ...
... wish that you too , like this poor , torpid , parasitical creature , Corinna , might be a medium for outside spirits to influence and speak through . But beware ! You know not what you wish . Learn to prize your individuality . The wis ...
Página 43
... who will show himself . He shrinks from no haunted room , no solitude , no darkness . " " Truly , Horace , you speak as if you half believed these absurdities . " 66 No , I wish I could . Peek once PIN - HOLES IN THE CURTAIN . 43.
... who will show himself . He shrinks from no haunted room , no solitude , no darkness . " " Truly , Horace , you speak as if you half believed these absurdities . " 66 No , I wish I could . Peek once PIN - HOLES IN THE CURTAIN . 43.
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Página 60 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Página 69 - ... at this day. It is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man...
Página 412 - Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. 162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. 163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love. 164 Seven times a day do I praise thee, because of thy righteous judgments.
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Página 413 - For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.