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Formerly they of the lighter literature , and we who had more wit , more smart
mark the increasing licentiousness dess , more worldly knowledge than that has
followed such works as their neighbours , enjoyed a certain those of Eugene Sue
...
Formerly they of the lighter literature , and we who had more wit , more smart
mark the increasing licentiousness dess , more worldly knowledge than that has
followed such works as their neighbours , enjoyed a certain those of Eugene Sue
...
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... but here we have an act of generous courtesy, based alike on the highest
discoveries of science and the rules of the truest good-breeding. The learned
Professor, with all the instincts of great acquirements and much self-knowledge
united ...
... but here we have an act of generous courtesy, based alike on the highest
discoveries of science and the rules of the truest good-breeding. The learned
Professor, with all the instincts of great acquirements and much self-knowledge
united ...
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Even the Civil-Service Examiners have contributed their share to this mass of
entertaining knowledge, and shown from what parts of the kingdom bad spellers
habitually come, what counties are celebrated for cacography, and in what
districts ...
Even the Civil-Service Examiners have contributed their share to this mass of
entertaining knowledge, and shown from what parts of the kingdom bad spellers
habitually come, what counties are celebrated for cacography, and in what
districts ...
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Although then, the naval instructors were, as a body, able and zealous, and
always anxious to impart to the young officers under their instruction such
knowledge as lay in their power, yet in cases such as these it was not in human
nature that ...
Although then, the naval instructors were, as a body, able and zealous, and
always anxious to impart to the young officers under their instruction such
knowledge as lay in their power, yet in cases such as these it was not in human
nature that ...
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To their credit be it said, a large number of officers, dissatisfied with their very
limited knowledge, applied themselves with diligence in their intervals of
employment to this—in many instances distasteful—task; and numerous are the
names ...
To their credit be it said, a large number of officers, dissatisfied with their very
limited knowledge, applied themselves with diligence in their intervals of
employment to this—in many instances distasteful—task; and numerous are the
names ...
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