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Nature has scarcely in any instance submitted her agencies to the guidance of art with a more pleasing result than in the ascent of one of these stately columns , which we think in its simple beauty is usually a better disposal of a ...
Nature has scarcely in any instance submitted her agencies to the guidance of art with a more pleasing result than in the ascent of one of these stately columns , which we think in its simple beauty is usually a better disposal of a ...
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But even this is beaten by another paragraph in the same letter - to which we call special attention with reference to what we have been suggesting as to the real nature of the feelings which M. de Custine wishes to cloak under a ...
But even this is beaten by another paragraph in the same letter - to which we call special attention with reference to what we have been suggesting as to the real nature of the feelings which M. de Custine wishes to cloak under a ...
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The Puritans , false , with all their professions , to every touch of nature , condemned , as did St. Cyprian , all mourning garments ; what would they now say to the ostentatious weepers and flaunting hatbands which so pharisaically ...
The Puritans , false , with all their professions , to every touch of nature , condemned , as did St. Cyprian , all mourning garments ; what would they now say to the ostentatious weepers and flaunting hatbands which so pharisaically ...
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A Description of the Canals and Railroads of | 5 |
IntimeMouvement LittérairePortraits 17891836 | 375 |
426 note omit Madame de St Aignan who was certainly saved | 426 |
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