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... present volume - has already reached a sixth edition , indicates , he tells me , that I have not yet exhausted the public patience . Trusting this may prove to be the case , I have ventured to trespass once more upon the good - nature ...
... present volume - has already reached a sixth edition , indicates , he tells me , that I have not yet exhausted the public patience . Trusting this may prove to be the case , I have ventured to trespass once more upon the good - nature ...
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... present , however , a veil has been drawn over the subject in the shape of a flourishing field of turnips , the Committee of Excavation hitherto having to mani- pulate their limited plot of ground somewhat as Paddy did his insufficient ...
... present , however , a veil has been drawn over the subject in the shape of a flourishing field of turnips , the Committee of Excavation hitherto having to mani- pulate their limited plot of ground somewhat as Paddy did his insufficient ...
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... presents similar distortions with respect to the orbits and the extraordinary elongation of the head which these Wroxeter skulls do . Judging from this fact alone , I am inclined to think that these poor people of the orchard have been ...
... presents similar distortions with respect to the orbits and the extraordinary elongation of the head which these Wroxeter skulls do . Judging from this fact alone , I am inclined to think that these poor people of the orchard have been ...
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... present moment the labouring man in this great metropolis pays more extravagantly for the two items of house - rent and food , according to what he gets , than any of the classes higher in the social scale , for the simple reason that ...
... present moment the labouring man in this great metropolis pays more extravagantly for the two items of house - rent and food , according to what he gets , than any of the classes higher in the social scale , for the simple reason that ...
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... present . And why , we ask , is the working man to have no beer ? Surely these establish- ments are not set up in order to carry by a side - wind what teetotal societies have failed to accomplish in a direct manner . We sincerely trust ...
... present . And why , we ask , is the working man to have no beer ? Surely these establish- ments are not set up in order to carry by a side - wind what teetotal societies have failed to accomplish in a direct manner . We sincerely trust ...
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