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... common and inconvenient trait of character , a short memory , have at last laid before them the opportunity of relief and improvement . Very recently , attracted by the notice which Prof. Loisette's System has obtained , we paid a visit ...
... common and inconvenient trait of character , a short memory , have at last laid before them the opportunity of relief and improvement . Very recently , attracted by the notice which Prof. Loisette's System has obtained , we paid a visit ...
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... common use in Scotland . A " bothersome creatur ' " is one who is apt to prove rather exasperating to his neighbours , while a lingering cold in the head or a smoky chimney is a " real bothersome thing . " Longsome is , in certain ...
... common use in Scotland . A " bothersome creatur ' " is one who is apt to prove rather exasperating to his neighbours , while a lingering cold in the head or a smoky chimney is a " real bothersome thing . " Longsome is , in certain ...
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... common . The same idea has been expressed in slightly varying forms innumerable times , one of the earliest of which is : - " For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand . I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God , than ...
... common . The same idea has been expressed in slightly varying forms innumerable times , one of the earliest of which is : - " For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand . I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God , than ...
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... common . Thirty years ago the greater part of this parish On it the cows were fed , and in summer lay out all night . My tenant's wife , since deceased , told me that when she used to go down with others to milk the cows in the morn- 32 ...
... common . Thirty years ago the greater part of this parish On it the cows were fed , and in summer lay out all night . My tenant's wife , since deceased , told me that when she used to go down with others to milk the cows in the morn- 32 ...
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... common in vulgar speech than in writing , and I agree with him , so far as my observation of the writings of old authors ex- tends . It finds a place in Webster's and other modern dictionaries , and is not unknown in com- positions that ...
... common in vulgar speech than in writing , and I agree with him , so far as my observation of the writings of old authors ex- tends . It finds a place in Webster's and other modern dictionaries , and is not unknown in com- positions that ...
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