American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 59Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1862 |
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... mind predisposed to superstition by some vague prophecies re- specting the destiny of his family ; a mind inquisitive , quick and earnest , but subject to occasional melancholy , as the inherited spell obtains a mastery over reason , is ...
... mind predisposed to superstition by some vague prophecies re- specting the destiny of his family ; a mind inquisitive , quick and earnest , but subject to occasional melancholy , as the inherited spell obtains a mastery over reason , is ...
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... mind , ' weary of the march of life , ' to go grandly forth at the beck of duty , rejuvenated with glorious hopes and noble purpose , and manfully fight the battle of life . We cannot imagine the reader who will not be benefited by its ...
... mind , ' weary of the march of life , ' to go grandly forth at the beck of duty , rejuvenated with glorious hopes and noble purpose , and manfully fight the battle of life . We cannot imagine the reader who will not be benefited by its ...
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... mind how , for a few moments , upon the banks of the Avon in gentle Warwickshire , we stopped and communed together . ' Kimball , in ' St. Leger , ' is the merciless anatomizer of humanity . With an unflinching and an unerring hand he ...
... mind how , for a few moments , upon the banks of the Avon in gentle Warwickshire , we stopped and communed together . ' Kimball , in ' St. Leger , ' is the merciless anatomizer of humanity . With an unflinching and an unerring hand he ...
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... mind may not inaptly be likened to a glittering kaleidoscope ; whichever way you view it you behold dazzling combinations ; whichever way it is turned you discern a new and original element . One of nature's aristocrats — the tendency ...
... mind may not inaptly be likened to a glittering kaleidoscope ; whichever way you view it you behold dazzling combinations ; whichever way it is turned you discern a new and original element . One of nature's aristocrats — the tendency ...
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... minds -Whence are we ? What are we ? Whither do we go ? the stumbling - block of ' St. Leger . ' It would have been utterly impossible for a mind like his , so susceptible to mysticism and poesy , to have remained any time in mystic ...
... minds -Whence are we ? What are we ? Whither do we go ? the stumbling - block of ' St. Leger . ' It would have been utterly impossible for a mind like his , so susceptible to mysticism and poesy , to have remained any time in mystic ...
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