The young husband, Volume 1; Volume 509

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Page 215 - We conceive this work to be by far the most valuable and important Judge Haliburton has ever written. While teeming with interest, moral and historical, to the general reader, it equally constitutes a philosophical study for the politician and statesman. It will be...
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Page 215 - The story of the Kirkpatricks of Closeburn (the ancestors of the French Empress), and...
Page 215 - No man has done more than the facetious Judge Haliburton, through the mouth of the Inimitable ' Sam,' to make the old parent country recognize and appreciate her queer transatlantic progeny.
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