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... present work , it is only because I do not see that scope in the nature of it which would enable me to make those satisfactory accounts between us , without which I really feel no satisfaction in engaging - but I will do all I can to ...
... present work , it is only because I do not see that scope in the nature of it which would enable me to make those satisfactory accounts between us , without which I really feel no satisfaction in engaging - but I will do all I can to ...
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... present I am as useless for regular ser- vice as one of my own country Indians , or a Don Cossack . " I must , therefore , keep on pretty much as I have begun ; writing when I can , not when I would . I shall occasionally shift my ...
... present I am as useless for regular ser- vice as one of my own country Indians , or a Don Cossack . " I must , therefore , keep on pretty much as I have begun ; writing when I can , not when I would . I shall occasionally shift my ...
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... it were , in the foot- steps of antiquity - to loiter about the ruined castle - to meditate on the falling tower - to escape , in short , from the common - place realities of the present , and lose myself among the 10 THE SKETCH BOOK .
... it were , in the foot- steps of antiquity - to loiter about the ruined castle - to meditate on the falling tower - to escape , in short , from the common - place realities of the present , and lose myself among the 10 THE SKETCH BOOK .
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Washington Irving. realities of the present , and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past . I had , beside all this , an earnest desire to see the great men of the earth . We have , it is true , our great men in America : not ...
Washington Irving. realities of the present , and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past . I had , beside all this , an earnest desire to see the great men of the earth . We have , it is true , our great men in America : not ...
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... presents no lesson to the world , or , perhaps , a humiliating one of human frailty and inconsistency . At best , they are prone to steal away from the bustle and commonplace of busy existence ; to indulge in the selfishness of lettered ...
... presents no lesson to the world , or , perhaps , a humiliating one of human frailty and inconsistency . At best , they are prone to steal away from the bustle and commonplace of busy existence ; to indulge in the selfishness of lettered ...
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