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The composition is good ; the narrative is clear and flowing ; and many of the persons have nature about them ; but it is a com- mon sort of nature - we meet such people every day and anywhere . They have hardly character enough for a ...
The composition is good ; the narrative is clear and flowing ; and many of the persons have nature about them ; but it is a com- mon sort of nature - we meet such people every day and anywhere . They have hardly character enough for a ...
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Satire is confined by the necessity of having a certain extent of bad eminence in its persons , before it will expatiate upon them , or even notice them at all some dignity of subject too is required before the satirist will touch it- ...
Satire is confined by the necessity of having a certain extent of bad eminence in its persons , before it will expatiate upon them , or even notice them at all some dignity of subject too is required before the satirist will touch it- ...
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Several safe persons had been planted at different points to reconnoitre ; every chance had been calculated , and every detail arranged . The maréchal would , as they knew , be compelled to present himself at the levée ...
Several safe persons had been planted at different points to reconnoitre ; every chance had been calculated , and every detail arranged . The maréchal would , as they knew , be compelled to present himself at the levée ...
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Capt Mercer U S Navy on Liberia | 2 |
The Cholera | 8 |
Discipline of Life | 192 |
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