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... fact . Crusoe sums up , as it were , within itself all the travel books that had gone before it from the time of Hakluyt on . It is in its way a highly scientific work ; its facts , geographical and otherwise , are as accurate as the ...
... fact . Crusoe sums up , as it were , within itself all the travel books that had gone before it from the time of Hakluyt on . It is in its way a highly scientific work ; its facts , geographical and otherwise , are as accurate as the ...
Page 48
... fact , too much of a good thing ; he scatters the largesse of his benevolence on all sides , but neither his principles nor his virtues are submitted to any very searching test ; he remains always in command of every situation . In Sir ...
... fact , too much of a good thing ; he scatters the largesse of his benevolence on all sides , but neither his principles nor his virtues are submitted to any very searching test ; he remains always in command of every situation . In Sir ...
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... facts , as she faces the facts about her mother : ' She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady ... fact always embarrassingly wrong . Strong - willed , spoilt , she conceives it her duty to set the world to rights ...
... facts , as she faces the facts about her mother : ' She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady ... fact always embarrassingly wrong . Strong - willed , spoilt , she conceives it her duty to set the world to rights ...
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