Addresses and TransactionsW. Dawson, 1969 |
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... hope the penance was expiatory . " The other record is in a letter to a friend : - I beg your pardon for the abruptness of my departure in the morning , but I was compelled to it by conscience . Fifty years ago .... on this day .. I com ...
... hope the penance was expiatory . " The other record is in a letter to a friend : - I beg your pardon for the abruptness of my departure in the morning , but I was compelled to it by conscience . Fifty years ago .... on this day .. I com ...
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... hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox . He makes , of course , due allowance for mere pre- judice , and remarks that " while an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performances , and when he is dead , we ...
... hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox . He makes , of course , due allowance for mere pre- judice , and remarks that " while an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performances , and when he is dead , we ...
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... Hope Hawkins was really his name , but he had been known to all of them as Anthony Hope . As Albert Chevalier had said , " Awkins is a first - class name . ' In spite of that , when inspiration came upon him he felt impelled to disguise ...
... Hope Hawkins was really his name , but he had been known to all of them as Anthony Hope . As Albert Chevalier had said , " Awkins is a first - class name . ' In spite of that , when inspiration came upon him he felt impelled to disguise ...
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