The Cornhill Magazine, Volumes 9-10; Volume 83; Volume 1901William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1901 |
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... believe he left my room in a happier frame of mind than when he entered it . He and Thackeray afterwards became close friends . These CORNHILL dinners gave rise to another incident which at this distance of time seems trivial enough ...
... believe he left my room in a happier frame of mind than when he entered it . He and Thackeray afterwards became close friends . These CORNHILL dinners gave rise to another incident which at this distance of time seems trivial enough ...
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... believe , few editors have ever taken to soften his refusal . The beautiful letter to Mrs. Brown- ing , printed in Mrs. Ritchie's article before mentioned , is an example of the pains that he took in writing to the contributors of ...
... believe , few editors have ever taken to soften his refusal . The beautiful letter to Mrs. Brown- ing , printed in Mrs. Ritchie's article before mentioned , is an example of the pains that he took in writing to the contributors of ...
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... believe Mrs. Hemans ' admirers - and made up of woven paces ' and of poetry too . Thine agile step , the lightest foot e'er seen on earth , ' wrote an old friend in his last days describing Felicia Hemans on her native cliffs . Many ...
... believe Mrs. Hemans ' admirers - and made up of woven paces ' and of poetry too . Thine agile step , the lightest foot e'er seen on earth , ' wrote an old friend in his last days describing Felicia Hemans on her native cliffs . Many ...
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... believe . It would act the other way , for when a rifleman had acquired some taste for military things , his instinct would be to join the volunteers or militia , or even , when his standard was very high , the army . The first thing ...
... believe . It would act the other way , for when a rifleman had acquired some taste for military things , his instinct would be to join the volunteers or militia , or even , when his standard was very high , the army . The first thing ...
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... believe , be ample . When serious trouble came they would be strongly reinforced from the militia and volunteers , just as the regular American army , which is a small body , could be raised to millions . It is a waste of money to pay ...
... believe , be ample . When serious trouble came they would be strongly reinforced from the militia and volunteers , just as the regular American army , which is a small body , could be raised to millions . It is a waste of money to pay ...
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