The Living Age, Volume 270Living Age Company, 1911 |
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Page 8
... person , in order to be present at the great Durbar at Delhi , when he is to be proclaimed Emperor of India . The decision was the King's . It is an open secret that the policy , nay , the safety of the step , was questioned by some of ...
... person , in order to be present at the great Durbar at Delhi , when he is to be proclaimed Emperor of India . The decision was the King's . It is an open secret that the policy , nay , the safety of the step , was questioned by some of ...
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... person he en- countered and that with great insight and beauty ? He was mad , it is true , or at any rate they thought him so , but to stand in true relations with men in an age of polite dissimulation is worth a fit of lunacy . You ...
... person he en- countered and that with great insight and beauty ? He was mad , it is true , or at any rate they thought him so , but to stand in true relations with men in an age of polite dissimulation is worth a fit of lunacy . You ...
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... person " -the Book of Proverbs in periwig - and of the warm- hearted waif , truant , social , gallant , quick - blooded , sympathetic . He does not lead up in shades from one to an- other , he is each by turns . Thack- eray worships ...
... person " -the Book of Proverbs in periwig - and of the warm- hearted waif , truant , social , gallant , quick - blooded , sympathetic . He does not lead up in shades from one to an- other , he is each by turns . Thack- eray worships ...
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... person calling himself James III . , for whose capture Parlia- ment hath offered a reward of £ 500 , as your Highness saw on our ride from Rochester . " " How the particularity of fact gives width to the scene ! How the libretto of the ...
... person calling himself James III . , for whose capture Parlia- ment hath offered a reward of £ 500 , as your Highness saw on our ride from Rochester . " " How the particularity of fact gives width to the scene ! How the libretto of the ...
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... persons to the classical - minded disciplinarians that sway the fortunes of our public schools ? I doubt it . These rare na- tures made to rule the smaller people on the earth cannot even in youth be curbed by the narrow trammels of ...
... persons to the classical - minded disciplinarians that sway the fortunes of our public schools ? I doubt it . These rare na- tures made to rule the smaller people on the earth cannot even in youth be curbed by the narrow trammels of ...
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