'While the 'boy' waits'.Hardwicke, 1879 - 340 pages |
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... up any considerable amount of information . Who among the passing multitude would suspect that the railway station brougham that draws up with a feeble crash , smacking strongly of three shillings ΙΟ " WHILE THE BOY ' WAITS . "
... up any considerable amount of information . Who among the passing multitude would suspect that the railway station brougham that draws up with a feeble crash , smacking strongly of three shillings ΙΟ " WHILE THE BOY ' WAITS . "
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... passing interest - upon which to hang a string of historical , argumentative , or moral reflections , and it is always easy to obtain any quantity which may be necessary of that uncertain but generally redundant commodity known as ...
... passing interest - upon which to hang a string of historical , argumentative , or moral reflections , and it is always easy to obtain any quantity which may be necessary of that uncertain but generally redundant commodity known as ...
Page 83
... passing thought or mood ; but it is mistaken for a genuine state of mind , and takes rank as a conviction . One class of per- sons take in another and perhaps totally different idea the next day or hour , and casting the previous notion ...
... passing thought or mood ; but it is mistaken for a genuine state of mind , and takes rank as a conviction . One class of per- sons take in another and perhaps totally different idea the next day or hour , and casting the previous notion ...
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Joseph Mortimer Granville. XVI . GROPING IN THE DARK . SCARCELY a day passes without hearing some one remark that the opportunity to do a great action which has made his name illustrious was his , which means that he did not miss it ...
Joseph Mortimer Granville. XVI . GROPING IN THE DARK . SCARCELY a day passes without hearing some one remark that the opportunity to do a great action which has made his name illustrious was his , which means that he did not miss it ...
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... passing through life is very much like groping in the dark . Numberless ways and abundant means of success lie around us , but we stumble over some , and fail and fall . We kick good things out of the path in the excess of our ...
... passing through life is very much like groping in the dark . Numberless ways and abundant means of success lie around us , but we stumble over some , and fail and fall . We kick good things out of the path in the excess of our ...
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