The Philadelphia Book: Or, Specimens of Metropolitan LiteratureKey & Biddle, 1836 - 380 páginas |
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... less inaccessible , and a glen equally profound . I changed frequently my station in order to diversify the scenery . At length it became ne- cessary to inquire by what means I should return . I tra- versed the edge of the hill , but on ...
... less inaccessible , and a glen equally profound . I changed frequently my station in order to diversify the scenery . At length it became ne- cessary to inquire by what means I should return . I tra- versed the edge of the hill , but on ...
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... less likely to have wandered hither . Since the birth of this continent , I was probably the first who had deviated thus remotely from the customary paths of men . While musing upon these ideas , my eye was fixed upon the foaming ...
... less likely to have wandered hither . Since the birth of this continent , I was probably the first who had deviated thus remotely from the customary paths of men . While musing upon these ideas , my eye was fixed upon the foaming ...
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... less of it ; afforded , indeed , in different portions , but always capable of much im- provement . When therefore I have heard gentlemen ex- cuse themselves from contributing their aid to this insti- tution , by alleging they have no ...
... less of it ; afforded , indeed , in different portions , but always capable of much im- provement . When therefore I have heard gentlemen ex- cuse themselves from contributing their aid to this insti- tution , by alleging they have no ...
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... less than a searching drizzle , and often what might , with propriety , be called a smart show- er . We had no tents to screen us from its pitiless pelt- ing ; nor , if we had had them , would it have comported with the incessant ...
... less than a searching drizzle , and often what might , with propriety , be called a smart show- er . We had no tents to screen us from its pitiless pelt- ing ; nor , if we had had them , would it have comported with the incessant ...
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... less a matter of speculation to the enemy , than to ourselves . I never heard the cause of it ; but whatever it was , the effect was at once alarming and sublime ; and what with the great- ness of the stake , the darkness of the night ...
... less a matter of speculation to the enemy , than to ourselves . I never heard the cause of it ; but whatever it was , the effect was at once alarming and sublime ; and what with the great- ness of the stake , the darkness of the night ...
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