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... person in the story is drawn after himself ; and settling it as an incontrovertible fact , that the scamp of a hero is a portrait of the author . Readers have a very grateful and good - humoured knack of fastening the vice upon the ...
... person in the story is drawn after himself ; and settling it as an incontrovertible fact , that the scamp of a hero is a portrait of the author . Readers have a very grateful and good - humoured knack of fastening the vice upon the ...
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... persons , and a story all the better for being shared with a pleasant companion . Accordingly , when he gets a capital new novel from the next circulating library , he likes to get somebody to read it to him ; but better still , having ...
... persons , and a story all the better for being shared with a pleasant companion . Accordingly , when he gets a capital new novel from the next circulating library , he likes to get somebody to read it to him ; but better still , having ...
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... persons they never saw . Buffon , the great natural ( or rather unnatural ) histo- rian , for he foisted upon the credulity of mankind me- moirs of lions and tigers that he knew nothing about until they were stuffed with straw - has ...
... persons they never saw . Buffon , the great natural ( or rather unnatural ) histo- rian , for he foisted upon the credulity of mankind me- moirs of lions and tigers that he knew nothing about until they were stuffed with straw - has ...
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... persons who keep horses . Those that keep them for their own amusement , and those who profit by keeping them for the amusement of others . The horses of the former either go , or go too fast ; whilst those of the latter usually go too ...
... persons who keep horses . Those that keep them for their own amusement , and those who profit by keeping them for the amusement of others . The horses of the former either go , or go too fast ; whilst those of the latter usually go too ...
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... person in the wide world by the hand , who supposes himself or herself exempt from this caprice - introduce either into a society with which they were previously unacquainted , and the moment the threshold is crossed , you will find ' t ...
... person in the wide world by the hand , who supposes himself or herself exempt from this caprice - introduce either into a society with which they were previously unacquainted , and the moment the threshold is crossed , you will find ' t ...
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