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... seemed as if his first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it , so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought . This habit , of course , is a little chilling to the social affections ; and though the com ...
... seemed as if his first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it , so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought . This habit , of course , is a little chilling to the social affections ; and though the com ...
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... seemed a festoon of dried apple or pump- kin will prove a string of Brazilian dia- monds , or pearls from Coromandel . ” Well , we make sure that whoever tum- bles the heap over now , more than forty years after the last object was laid ...
... seemed a festoon of dried apple or pump- kin will prove a string of Brazilian dia- monds , or pearls from Coromandel . ” Well , we make sure that whoever tum- bles the heap over now , more than forty years after the last object was laid ...
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... seemed about to crawl . " So this is your dog ! " exclaimed the girl , as she knelt and clasped her arms around the staghound's neck . " Don't you love him ? " Perhaps it was the leading form of the question ; or the pleading tone that ...
... seemed about to crawl . " So this is your dog ! " exclaimed the girl , as she knelt and clasped her arms around the staghound's neck . " Don't you love him ? " Perhaps it was the leading form of the question ; or the pleading tone that ...
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... seemed thoroughly atten- tive , but it was impossible for me to tell whether the reading met with their ap- proval and indeed whether the poem it- self did . This was disappointing , and I found myself addressing my words more and more ...
... seemed thoroughly atten- tive , but it was impossible for me to tell whether the reading met with their ap- proval and indeed whether the poem it- self did . This was disappointing , and I found myself addressing my words more and more ...
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... seemed to relieve his mind to a rather amusing extent , though I had supposed it to be one of those obvious doctrines which the light of nature suffi- ciently teaches . It was more easily learned by another lecturer , of much note in ...
... seemed to relieve his mind to a rather amusing extent , though I had supposed it to be one of those obvious doctrines which the light of nature suffi- ciently teaches . It was more easily learned by another lecturer , of much note in ...
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Página 10 - ... he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise. It cost him nothing to say No; indeed he found it much easier than to say Yes. It seemed as if his first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit, of course, is a little chilling to the social affections; and...
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