Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 33James Fraser, 1846 |
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... hope that the lesson will not be forgotten by any of our readers . The slightest effort in a good cause will not be without some profit . The spare minutes of a year are sure labourers , if they be kept to their work . They can throw ...
... hope that the lesson will not be forgotten by any of our readers . The slightest effort in a good cause will not be without some profit . The spare minutes of a year are sure labourers , if they be kept to their work . They can throw ...
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... hope to put society upon the way of training its members so that crime , if it do not absolutely cease , shall at least become less frequent than it has heretofore been in the world . Of course our reasoning is not to be understood as ...
... hope to put society upon the way of training its members so that crime , if it do not absolutely cease , shall at least become less frequent than it has heretofore been in the world . Of course our reasoning is not to be understood as ...
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... hope of meeting there some women of the fashionable world , and of being seen by them ; the hope less frequently deceived of seeing there young pea- sant girls as shrewd as judges , brings on a Sunday , to the ball of Sceaux ...
... hope of meeting there some women of the fashionable world , and of being seen by them ; the hope less frequently deceived of seeing there young pea- sant girls as shrewd as judges , brings on a Sunday , to the ball of Sceaux ...
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... hope of a true prophet , foretels their future advancement . The destinies of the French nation are directed by literary men - by Guizot , who is in place , and by Thiers , who is out of it . Our literary men have no such rank in ...
... hope of a true prophet , foretels their future advancement . The destinies of the French nation are directed by literary men - by Guizot , who is in place , and by Thiers , who is out of it . Our literary men have no such rank in ...
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... hope for . We look for our artists in the ranks of the Royal Aca- demy , for our men of science in the ranks of the Royal Society , for our physicians in their College , for our lawyers , if not already ennobled , on the benches of ...
... hope for . We look for our artists in the ranks of the Royal Aca- demy , for our men of science in the ranks of the Royal Society , for our physicians in their College , for our lawyers , if not already ennobled , on the benches of ...
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Page 301 - Malcom, Land, rediv. INSCRIPTION ON A MONUMENT ALLUDED TO IN THE SKETCH Here lyes the Loyal Duke of Newcastle, and his Duchess his second wife, by whom he had no issue. Her name was Margaret Lucas, youngest sister to the Lord Lucas of Colchester, a noble family ; for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.
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