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Page 139
... less running through the book , the real character is the parish of Dalmailing itself . And here Galt's is still an outstanding performance , for we see , in consid- erable detail and year by year , the change from a small , static ...
... less running through the book , the real character is the parish of Dalmailing itself . And here Galt's is still an outstanding performance , for we see , in consid- erable detail and year by year , the change from a small , static ...
Page 167
... less than by Marryat himself . In the last years of his life he devoted himself mainly to the writing of his books for children , such as Masterman Ready and The Children of the New Forest . They are ad- mirable ; yet that he gave up ...
... less than by Marryat himself . In the last years of his life he devoted himself mainly to the writing of his books for children , such as Masterman Ready and The Children of the New Forest . They are ad- mirable ; yet that he gave up ...
Page 296
... less convincing because , according to the doctor , he is a boy " of a sort unknown in the last generation .. the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live . " The philosophical explanation high - lights the sentimen- tality ...
... less convincing because , according to the doctor , he is a boy " of a sort unknown in the last generation .. the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live . " The philosophical explanation high - lights the sentimen- tality ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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