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... hour to each ; he smoked and doubted eight hours , and he slept the remaining twelve of the four and twenty . Such was the renowned Wouter Van Twiller - a true philosopher , for his mind was either elevated above , or tranquilly settled ...
... hour to each ; he smoked and doubted eight hours , and he slept the remaining twelve of the four and twenty . Such was the renowned Wouter Van Twiller - a true philosopher , for his mind was either elevated above , or tranquilly settled ...
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... hour to one or two hours in its perusal . The ordinary novel is objectionable , from its length , for reasons already stated in substance . As it cannot be read at one sitting , it deprives itself , of course , of the immense force ...
... hour to one or two hours in its perusal . The ordinary novel is objectionable , from its length , for reasons already stated in substance . As it cannot be read at one sitting , it deprives itself , of course , of the immense force ...
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... hour and season yields its tribute of delight ; for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind , from breathless noon to grimmest midnight . Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a ...
... hour and season yields its tribute of delight ; for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind , from breathless noon to grimmest midnight . Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a ...
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