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... whole road , and make you look about to see how they are to pass without your being run over . They are generally on the trot , driven by a Bauer , in his proper and peculiar costume ; —in Baden , a large black cocked - hat , a long ...
... whole road , and make you look about to see how they are to pass without your being run over . They are generally on the trot , driven by a Bauer , in his proper and peculiar costume ; —in Baden , a large black cocked - hat , a long ...
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... whole circle and system of their existence , and feel a lively sympathy with those who make so large a proportion of the people of the land , especially as you compare their form of life and comforts with those of the same class in your ...
... whole circle and system of their existence , and feel a lively sympathy with those who make so large a proportion of the people of the land , especially as you compare their form of life and comforts with those of the same class in your ...
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... whole place there is a curious mixture of rudeness and attempt at ornament . Most houses are heavy and rude , and weather - worn ; but others , again , bright , neatly painted , and their upper windows filled with gay flowering plants ...
... whole place there is a curious mixture of rudeness and attempt at ornament . Most houses are heavy and rude , and weather - worn ; but others , again , bright , neatly painted , and their upper windows filled with gay flowering plants ...
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... whole landscape in England are here unknown . That wealth and taste and intelligence which the residence of all classes in the country diffuse over the whole of rural life , are here withdrawn , and the peasantry are left to their ...
... whole landscape in England are here unknown . That wealth and taste and intelligence which the residence of all classes in the country diffuse over the whole of rural life , are here withdrawn , and the peasantry are left to their ...
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... whole is most compact and neat . It defies the gusty winds , and holds the fruit out of the dust , and earth that is splashed up in heavy rains . Between these beds of a few yards wide the vine - dressers can approach ; and when , as ...
... whole is most compact and neat . It defies the gusty winds , and holds the fruit out of the dust , and earth that is splashed up in heavy rains . Between these beds of a few yards wide the vine - dressers can approach ; and when , as ...
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