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... masters and that particular Trades Union at an end ; secondly , declaring that no master would employ any work - man in future , unless he signed a declaration that he did not belong to any Trades Union , and pledged himself not to ...
... masters and that particular Trades Union at an end ; secondly , declaring that no master would employ any work - man in future , unless he signed a declaration that he did not belong to any Trades Union , and pledged himself not to ...
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... Master of Ballantrae ( 1889 ) is a bigger book , more ambitious , less successful because Stevenson was in part attempting what then he could not do . The action turns on the character of Alison , and at the time of writing the novel ...
... Master of Ballantrae ( 1889 ) is a bigger book , more ambitious , less successful because Stevenson was in part attempting what then he could not do . The action turns on the character of Alison , and at the time of writing the novel ...
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... master , he is a minor master . In The Old Wives ' Tale and The Clayhanger Family Bennett's aim was to unroll the panorama of life in time through all the tiny , detailed incidents of its thousand acts . His was normally the opposite of ...
... master , he is a minor master . In The Old Wives ' Tale and The Clayhanger Family Bennett's aim was to unroll the panorama of life in time through all the tiny , detailed incidents of its thousand acts . His was normally the opposite of ...
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