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" ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable ; being answerable... "
Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and American Monthly Review - Page 47
edited by - 1838
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Half-hours of translation, or Extracts from the best British and American ...

Alphonse Mariette - 1863 - 400 pages
...upon what is strange ; 18 — often it consisteth in one knows not what, and ariseth19 one knows not how: its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings 1 Saying, dicton — 1 in forging an apposite tale, dans 1'invention d'nne histoire a point — 3 in,...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose : often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly...numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way (such as reason teacheth and...
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Scraps. [An anthology, ed.] by H. Jenkins

esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly...numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way (such as reason teacheth and...
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Shakespere, His Birthplace, Home, and Grave: A Pilgrimage to Stratford-on ...

J. M. Jephson - 1864 - 286 pages
...crafty wrefting obvious matter to the purpofe ; often it confifteth in one knows not what, and fpringeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being anfwerable to the numberlefs rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in fhort, a manner of...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

1865 - 980 pages
...is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvions matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly...numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way (snch as reason teacheth and...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 1

1865 - 496 pages
...wresting obvious matter to the purpose; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth np one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable...numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way (such as reason teacheth and...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose : often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its way* are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings...
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Selections from the writings of Isaac Barrow

Isaac Barrow - 1866 - 312 pages
...is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consistcth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly...numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way (such as reason teacheth and...
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Lectures on English Literatures from Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1866 - 502 pages
...from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisted) in one knows not \v?iat, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways...numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way, (such as reasoning teacheth...
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Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor, Volume 1

Wayne E. Burton - 1867 - 674 pages
...is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly...numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simplo and plain way (such as reason teacheth and...
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