The Cornhill Magazine, Volumes 9-10; Volume 83; Volume 1901William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1901 |
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... close with them . There was delay in the letter reaching me , and the contracts were made at those rates . But with the circulation reached by the CORNHILL the mere printing and paper cost us much more than the amounts we were to ...
... close with them . There was delay in the letter reaching me , and the contracts were made at those rates . But with the circulation reached by the CORNHILL the mere printing and paper cost us much more than the amounts we were to ...
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... close friends . These CORNHILL dinners gave rise to another incident which at this distance of time seems trivial enough , but which , at the moment , caused some indignation in my own immediate circle . Mr. Edmund Yates , who had had a ...
... close friends . These CORNHILL dinners gave rise to another incident which at this distance of time seems trivial enough , but which , at the moment , caused some indignation in my own immediate circle . Mr. Edmund Yates , who had had a ...
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... close my account ; and what about my clerks ? How I should demoralise them if they suspected me of tossing with an author for his manuscript ! We ultimately came to an agreement on my terms , which were suffi- ciently liberal . But I ...
... close my account ; and what about my clerks ? How I should demoralise them if they suspected me of tossing with an author for his manuscript ! We ultimately came to an agreement on my terms , which were suffi- ciently liberal . But I ...
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... close the windows and exclude the air entirely . Thursday 21st . - We have seen but little of Bonaparte lately ; he now seldom or never plays at cards , never appears till dinner - time , and stays but a short time on deck . He writes a ...
... close the windows and exclude the air entirely . Thursday 21st . - We have seen but little of Bonaparte lately ; he now seldom or never plays at cards , never appears till dinner - time , and stays but a short time on deck . He writes a ...
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... close together on a bed looking out through a window upon a divine scene , and engaged in debating upon the professions we should adopt when we should be grown up . It was the time of the Crimean war , and this influenced old and young ...
... close together on a bed looking out through a window upon a divine scene , and engaged in debating upon the professions we should adopt when we should be grown up . It was the time of the Crimean war , and this influenced old and young ...
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