The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 34Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1849 |
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... matter ; we think our adver- sary has a little missed his foothold in trenching upon the town of Bumkum , and for that reason we mean to play dog to his cat , or to change the parenthesis , to show him up in his own colors ( to save ...
... matter ; we think our adver- sary has a little missed his foothold in trenching upon the town of Bumkum , and for that reason we mean to play dog to his cat , or to change the parenthesis , to show him up in his own colors ( to save ...
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... matter . Charm he will , for he has the will to charm you . In all that MACAULAY has ever touched , so far as his fame as a writer goes , there is very little which can touch MACAULAY . His admirers are many , and his imitators more ...
... matter . Charm he will , for he has the will to charm you . In all that MACAULAY has ever touched , so far as his fame as a writer goes , there is very little which can touch MACAULAY . His admirers are many , and his imitators more ...
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... matter as whether words are spelt right or rong . A hundred years ago there was no right or rong about it , and it's only a new invention , the excitement being got up principally by NOAH WEBSTER to make his book sell . For ourselves ...
... matter as whether words are spelt right or rong . A hundred years ago there was no right or rong about it , and it's only a new invention , the excitement being got up principally by NOAH WEBSTER to make his book sell . For ourselves ...
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... matter . Wonderful law ! yet which now comprises the most interesting list of novels , etc. , in the country ; to wit : The Devil on Two Sticks ; Three Spaniards ; Abelino , or Noted Bandit ; Baxter's Saint's Rest ; Roderick Random ...
... matter . Wonderful law ! yet which now comprises the most interesting list of novels , etc. , in the country ; to wit : The Devil on Two Sticks ; Three Spaniards ; Abelino , or Noted Bandit ; Baxter's Saint's Rest ; Roderick Random ...
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... matter - of - fact ; but , to me , always agreeable . You will bear me witness how invariably I have defended our sex ( I take it for granted your readers will understand me as speaking in the masculine gender , ) against that sickening ...
... matter - of - fact ; but , to me , always agreeable . You will bear me witness how invariably I have defended our sex ( I take it for granted your readers will understand me as speaking in the masculine gender , ) against that sickening ...
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