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In his preface , the best thing in the book , Lord Cowper puts the question in this
way : -Everybody allows his personal charm , his knowledge , his originality of
mind , and his upright and honourable character . But did he really govern the ...
In his preface , the best thing in the book , Lord Cowper puts the question in this
way : -Everybody allows his personal charm , his knowledge , his originality of
mind , and his upright and honourable character . But did he really govern the ...
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Full of amusing things , and not without some of ' the graver thoughts of human
life ' ; nevertheless it falls far below ' Alice in Wonderland , ' and the illustrations of
Mr. Harry Furniss are by no means worthy of his reputation . ' Atheneum , Jan. 4 .
Full of amusing things , and not without some of ' the graver thoughts of human
life ' ; nevertheless it falls far below ' Alice in Wonderland , ' and the illustrations of
Mr. Harry Furniss are by no means worthy of his reputation . ' Atheneum , Jan. 4 .
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... but he does not succeed in making these thing , plain to his reader . Не does
not think with precision or write with method , innd what he has to tell us must be
picked out here and there amidst rambling remarks and endless repetitions .
... but he does not succeed in making these thing , plain to his reader . Не does
not think with precision or write with method , innd what he has to tell us must be
picked out here and there amidst rambling remarks and endless repetitions .
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... his briglit and frank sense of the ludicrous , and that true feeling for the fresh
and unexpected aspect of things which is said to constitute wit . " - Atheneum ,
Dec. 11 . Chapin , F. H. Mountaineering in Colorado ; the peaks about Estes Park
.
... his briglit and frank sense of the ludicrous , and that true feeling for the fresh
and unexpected aspect of things which is said to constitute wit . " - Atheneum ,
Dec. 11 . Chapin , F. H. Mountaineering in Colorado ; the peaks about Estes Park
.
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There is infinitely more information in his little work than we usually find in books
of a similar nature , Though a soldier , Major Parry is well versed in all things
nautical ; he describes vividly the pleasures and pains of a sailing cruise , he
revels ...
There is infinitely more information in his little work than we usually find in books
of a similar nature , Though a soldier , Major Parry is well versed in all things
nautical ; he describes vividly the pleasures and pains of a sailing cruise , he
revels ...
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