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Meliora: or, Better times to come. Being the contributions of many men ... - Page 229
by Meliora - 1853
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Debates of the Convention to Amend the Constitution of ..., Volume 5

Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1873 - 836 pages
...ticket, so as to divide the State into ten or twelve districts and elect the Senators by general ticket. It seemed to me then, as it seems to me now, that a division of the State in that manner would certainly be preferable to the election of Senators by...
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The Fall of the Monarchy of Charles I. 1637-1649, Volume 1

Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1882 - 522 pages
...selecting a subject more attractive in its own nature than the reign of James I. could possibly be. It seemed to me then, as it seems to me now, that it was the duty of a serious inquirer to search into the original causes of great events rather than,...
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An ambitious woman

Edgar Fawcett - 1883 - 458 pages
...excessive disturbance. " I concede, Beverley, that it hurt me very deeply to realize your humiliation. It seemed to me then, as it seems to me now, that a girl of her class should have been glad to marry a man of your place and name. What was she ? And...
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Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Notes of a Visit to California: Two ...

Joshua Fry Speed - 1884 - 78 pages
...leading man upon the ticket. I was then fresh from Kentucky, and had heard many of her great orators. It seemed to me then, as it seems to me now, that I never heard a more effective speaker. He carried the crowd with him and swayed them as he pleased....
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The Green Bag, Volume 16

1904 - 926 pages
...that I hoped I might some day be appointed to the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It seemed to me then, as it seems to me now, that there could be no more delightful life for a man competent to the service than one spent in discussing...
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Suffolk Tales & Other Stories, Fairy Legends, Poems, Miscellaneous Articles

Lady Eveline Camilla Gurdon - 1897 - 392 pages
...moonlit common and under the red October beeches, with my heart full of all I had seen and heard. And it seemed to me then, as it seems to me now, that I shall never know a quarter of all the goodness and kindness and love that are hidden away in the...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and ..., Volume 1

Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1924 - 314 pages
...impression. "I was then fresh from Kentucky," says Mr. Speed, "and had heard many of her great orators. It seemed to me then, as it seems to me now, that I never heard a more effective speaker. He carried the crowd with him and swayed them as he pleased....
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Essays, Practical & Speculative

Samuel David McConnell - 1900 - 292 pages
...which had up to that time appeared in French or English bearing with any directness upon the subject. It seemed to me then, as it seems to me now, that whether true or false, the theory must have the closest possible relation to my religion. When I first...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 195

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1902 - 684 pages
...selecting a subject more attractive in its own nature than the reign of James I could possibly be. It seemed to me then, as it seems to me now, that it was the duty of a serious inquirer to search into the original causes of great events rather than,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 195

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1902 - 684 pages
...selecting a subject more attractive in its own nature than the reign of James I could possibly be. It seemed to me then, as it seems to me now, that it was the duty of a serious inquirer to search into the original causes of great events rather than,...
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