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... things , They often give to weightier truths their wings ; Convey a moral , or correct bad taste , Though aptly ... thing ; yet a book may be amus- ing with numerous errors , or it may be dull without a single absurdity . " It would be ...
... things , They often give to weightier truths their wings ; Convey a moral , or correct bad taste , Though aptly ... thing ; yet a book may be amus- ing with numerous errors , or it may be dull without a single absurdity . " It would be ...
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... things without a great number of other things . " The present work might not inaptly be styled an odd volume , were it not intended to be even with its predecessor , of which , indeed , it forms the counterpart . It is odd in its plan ...
... things without a great number of other things . " The present work might not inaptly be styled an odd volume , were it not intended to be even with its predecessor , of which , indeed , it forms the counterpart . It is odd in its plan ...
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... adequate support of his declining years , was not only the first publisher to introduce a reduction in the price of books , but the originator of a fund for oppressed debtors - two things that go to his 42 SALAD FOR THE SOCIAL .
... adequate support of his declining years , was not only the first publisher to introduce a reduction in the price of books , but the originator of a fund for oppressed debtors - two things that go to his 42 SALAD FOR THE SOCIAL .
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Frederick Saunders. for oppressed debtors - two things that go to his glory . In the same category was Booth , of London , whose knowledge of books , critical , not titulary , rendered him eminently distin- guished ; his collection was ...
Frederick Saunders. for oppressed debtors - two things that go to his glory . In the same category was Booth , of London , whose knowledge of books , critical , not titulary , rendered him eminently distin- guished ; his collection was ...
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... thing except his soul ; And always anxious , always vexed , Loses both this world and the next ! " Shakspeare defines the sordid passion as- " Worse poison to men's souls , Doing more murders in this loathsome world Than any mortal drug ...
... thing except his soul ; And always anxious , always vexed , Loses both this world and the next ! " Shakspeare defines the sordid passion as- " Worse poison to men's souls , Doing more murders in this loathsome world Than any mortal drug ...
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