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... follows another in orderly sequence , that you are in control of your thoughts , that your mind is as it were a ... follow , an ' please your worships , that the more I write , the more I shall have to write and consequently , the ...
... follows another in orderly sequence , that you are in control of your thoughts , that your mind is as it were a ... follow , an ' please your worships , that the more I write , the more I shall have to write and consequently , the ...
Page 79
... follow it instantly with another ; if the chapters describing how a clergyman's wife bribes a bishop's wife in order to get a vacant living for her husband and how the bishop in turn bribes a duchess in an attempt to get a vacant ...
... follow it instantly with another ; if the chapters describing how a clergyman's wife bribes a bishop's wife in order to get a vacant living for her husband and how the bishop in turn bribes a duchess in an attempt to get a vacant ...
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... follow The Portrait , The Bostonians and The Princess Casa- massima , both of which appeared in 1886 , follow Balzac in that the notion of the novelist lying behind them is that of the novelist as the historian of his own time . These ...
... follow The Portrait , The Bostonians and The Princess Casa- massima , both of which appeared in 1886 , follow Balzac in that the notion of the novelist lying behind them is that of the novelist as the historian of his own time . These ...
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