The Cornhill Magazine, Volumes 9-10; Volume 83; Volume 1901William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1901 |
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... present Writer has been for five - and - twenty years before the world , which has taken his measure pretty accurately . We are too long acquainted to try and deceive one another ; and were I to propose any such astounding feat as that ...
... present Writer has been for five - and - twenty years before the world , which has taken his measure pretty accurately . We are too long acquainted to try and deceive one another ; and were I to propose any such astounding feat as that ...
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... present . Yates repre- sented me as a good man of business , but an entirely unread person ; and , by way of throwing ridicule on the CORNHILL functions , told - or rather mistold - a story of what had been said at one of the dinners ...
... present . Yates repre- sented me as a good man of business , but an entirely unread person ; and , by way of throwing ridicule on the CORNHILL functions , told - or rather mistold - a story of what had been said at one of the dinners ...
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... present . Beyond an occasional witticism , Sir Two years since I had the good fortune to partake of some admirable dinners in Tyburnia - magnificent dinners indeed , but rendered doubly inter- esting from the fact that the house was ...
... present . Beyond an occasional witticism , Sir Two years since I had the good fortune to partake of some admirable dinners in Tyburnia - magnificent dinners indeed , but rendered doubly inter- esting from the fact that the house was ...
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... present news from ' Yours ever , ' W. M. T. ' Thackeray was far too tender - hearted to be happy as an editor . He could not say ' No ' without himself suffering a pang as keen as that inflicted by his ' No ' on the rejected contributor ...
... present news from ' Yours ever , ' W. M. T. ' Thackeray was far too tender - hearted to be happy as an editor . He could not say ' No ' without himself suffering a pang as keen as that inflicted by his ' No ' on the rejected contributor ...
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... present circumstances have been omitted were it not for the continuity of the story . In regard to the statement on p . 21 , attributed to Madame Bertrand , that some antique coins had been found by Napoleon himself at Rome , it has ...
... present circumstances have been omitted were it not for the continuity of the story . In regard to the statement on p . 21 , attributed to Madame Bertrand , that some antique coins had been found by Napoleon himself at Rome , it has ...
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