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... brought along with him some cart - loads of poor - gentry , accoutred with arms and ready to fight , and set them to elect himself and his friends to the different offices , and to knock down and cut down the rival candi- dates . These ...
... brought along with him some cart - loads of poor - gentry , accoutred with arms and ready to fight , and set them to elect himself and his friends to the different offices , and to knock down and cut down the rival candi- dates . These ...
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... brought up in the circle of the best Moscow society , an excellent dancer , musician , and painter , versed in the productions of French literature , and gifted with an uncom- mon memory , Meloveeden , a spoiled child of fortune , be ...
... brought up in the circle of the best Moscow society , an excellent dancer , musician , and painter , versed in the productions of French literature , and gifted with an uncom- mon memory , Meloveeden , a spoiled child of fortune , be ...
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... brought on in the garden , during a late interview with her dear friend . She would take no advice nor consolation from her parents , sis- ter , and companions , and was a little quieter only when Me- loveeden gave her his word of ...
... brought on in the garden , during a late interview with her dear friend . She would take no advice nor consolation from her parents , sis- ter , and companions , and was a little quieter only when Me- loveeden gave her his word of ...
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... brought on a fit of melancholy on Mrs. Gologordoffsky and her youngest daughter . The eldest , without that , was sick enough at heart . In vain did father Ezueet preach upon the vanity of this world : they heard him with sighs , and ...
... brought on a fit of melancholy on Mrs. Gologordoffsky and her youngest daughter . The eldest , without that , was sick enough at heart . In vain did father Ezueet preach upon the vanity of this world : they heard him with sighs , and ...
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... brought two other Jews as contractors for the furnishing of wines and groce- ries for the feast . The said contractors , as I afterwards heard from the steward Kantchukoffsky , disposed of goods . belonging to our farmer , who did not ...
... brought two other Jews as contractors for the furnishing of wines and groce- ries for the feast . The said contractors , as I afterwards heard from the steward Kantchukoffsky , disposed of goods . belonging to our farmer , who did not ...
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Page 192 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest : for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.