Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 63John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1864 |
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... character and career need not be at a loss to discern the chief of a nation , the influence of circumstances , causes which produce that mortality . Un- and of local peculiarities , is raised thereby questionably the great prophylactic ...
... character and career need not be at a loss to discern the chief of a nation , the influence of circumstances , causes which produce that mortality . Un- and of local peculiarities , is raised thereby questionably the great prophylactic ...
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... character- istics as a man of letters , or gaining any great information relative either to the man or the author . The arrangement is not lucid , the style is not vigorous , very few of the facts are new . Of the " anec- dotes and ...
... character- istics as a man of letters , or gaining any great information relative either to the man or the author . The arrangement is not lucid , the style is not vigorous , very few of the facts are new . Of the " anec- dotes and ...
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... characters , as de- veloped in the commonplace incidents of every day life , he holds up to us a mirror in which we ... character to which it would not be easy to find numerous counterparts , or an incident that might not be paralleled ...
... characters , as de- veloped in the commonplace incidents of every day life , he holds up to us a mirror in which we ... character to which it would not be easy to find numerous counterparts , or an incident that might not be paralleled ...
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... character ; and she is certainly a suffi- ciently disagreeable specimen of unre- lieved selfishness . But there is something in the circumstances of her history and the character of her surroundings , even from her infancy , which makes ...
... character ; and she is certainly a suffi- ciently disagreeable specimen of unre- lieved selfishness . But there is something in the circumstances of her history and the character of her surroundings , even from her infancy , which makes ...
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... characters . In him , undoubtedly , the writer intended to teach a very im- portant lesson ; the superiority of an un ... character of the good colonel stands out to special advantage . There are few things more touching in the range of ...
... characters . In him , undoubtedly , the writer intended to teach a very im- portant lesson ; the superiority of an un ... character of the good colonel stands out to special advantage . There are few things more touching in the range of ...
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Página 130 - Artesian wells had been opened, around which, as vegetation thrives luxuriantly, thirty thousand palm-trees and one thousand fruit-trees were planted, and two thriving villages established. At the depth of a little over five hundred feet, an underground river or lake was struck, and from two of them live fish have been thrown up, showing that there was a large body of water underneath. The French government, by this means, hopes to make the route across the desert, to Timbuctoo, fertile, and fit...