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... things in shops and markets -The coming of Pelznichel - The arrival of Christmas - eve , and opening of the Christmas saloon , with all its glories , of Christmas - tree , gifts , and illuminations - What the Christ - kindchen really ...
... things in shops and markets -The coming of Pelznichel - The arrival of Christmas - eve , and opening of the Christmas saloon , with all its glories , of Christmas - tree , gifts , and illuminations - What the Christ - kindchen really ...
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... things you are existing , and yet how completely all the strangeness has vanished from your consciousness . In our own country , how much are we struck by the views which foreigners take of us , our native land , and native customs . We ...
... things you are existing , and yet how completely all the strangeness has vanished from your consciousness . In our own country , how much are we struck by the views which foreigners take of us , our native land , and native customs . We ...
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... things should be , but that you should think them anything extraordinary . Such , and the overpowering smells , are the things which first arrest your attention in a German town ; but of these towns we shall hereafter speak more ...
... things should be , but that you should think them anything extraordinary . Such , and the overpowering smells , are the things which first arrest your attention in a German town ; but of these towns we shall hereafter speak more ...
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... things imaginable . What a contrast to the jolly fat horses and ponderous painted wagons of the English farmer ! The set - out of a first - rate English farmer or miller , to say nothing of the wagons and drays of the London brewers ...
... things imaginable . What a contrast to the jolly fat horses and ponderous painted wagons of the English farmer ! The set - out of a first - rate English farmer or miller , to say nothing of the wagons and drays of the London brewers ...
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... or in the little close things which are cap and bonnet both ; and men of all sorts are seen in these wagons , sometimes from the gentleman to the sunburnt labourer . The postillion , returning with his horses , FIRST IMPRESSIONS . 6.
... or in the little close things which are cap and bonnet both ; and men of all sorts are seen in these wagons , sometimes from the gentleman to the sunburnt labourer . The postillion , returning with his horses , FIRST IMPRESSIONS . 6.
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