Felix Holt, the RadicalHarper, 1871 - 529 pages |
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Page 36
George Eliot. to any profane history ; the Pagans , of course , were vi- cious , and their religions quite nonsensical , considered as religions — but classical learning came from the Pagans ; the Greeks were famous for sculpture ; the ...
George Eliot. to any profane history ; the Pagans , of course , were vi- cious , and their religions quite nonsensical , considered as religions — but classical learning came from the Pagans ; the Greeks were famous for sculpture ; the ...
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... course of half an hour he had brought himself to see that any thing really worthy to be called British Tory- ism had been entirely extinct since the Duke of Welling- ton and Sir Robert Peel had passed the Catholic Emanci- pation Bill ...
... course of half an hour he had brought himself to see that any thing really worthy to be called British Tory- ism had been entirely extinct since the Duke of Welling- ton and Sir Robert Peel had passed the Catholic Emanci- pation Bill ...
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... course he had chosen ; but he disliked all quarreling as an unpleasant expenditure of energy that could have no good practical result . He was at once active and luxurious ; fond of mastery , and good - natured enough to wish that every ...
... course he had chosen ; but he disliked all quarreling as an unpleasant expenditure of energy that could have no good practical result . He was at once active and luxurious ; fond of mastery , and good - natured enough to wish that every ...
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... course , " said Harold , impatiently . " I'm aware how things have been going on in England . I always meant to come back ultimately . I suppose I know the state of Europe as well as if I'd been stationary at Little Treby for the last ...
... course , " said Harold , impatiently . " I'm aware how things have been going on in England . I always meant to come back ultimately . I suppose I know the state of Europe as well as if I'd been stationary at Little Treby for the last ...
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... course in these matters , which properly belong to men . Beyond that , I will gratify any wish you choose to mention . You shall have a new carriage and a pair of bays all to your- self ; you shall have the house done up in first - rate ...
... course in these matters , which properly belong to men . Beyond that , I will gratify any wish you choose to mention . You shall have a new carriage and a pair of bays all to your- self ; you shall have the house done up in first - rate ...
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