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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... persons need not spend more than one half a day five or six times a year . The house itself is under the superintendence of nuns as teachers , and a lady - superior as directress . The pupils are young girls , from the age of thirteen ...
... persons need not spend more than one half a day five or six times a year . The house itself is under the superintendence of nuns as teachers , and a lady - superior as directress . The pupils are young girls , from the age of thirteen ...
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... persons out of ten but what will think that something has been said , and will fish with a line and pole in their poor shallow brains for ten days to pull it up , but no bite . There is a friend of mine will say nothing ; a positively ...
... persons out of ten but what will think that something has been said , and will fish with a line and pole in their poor shallow brains for ten days to pull it up , but no bite . There is a friend of mine will say nothing ; a positively ...
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... person to recommend it , as we have daughters of our own . But we do say that music has charms to tame a savage , to sooth a rock and split a cabbage . ' Little Miss PUFFINGTON sang her music charmingly . The base singer has a splendid ...
... person to recommend it , as we have daughters of our own . But we do say that music has charms to tame a savage , to sooth a rock and split a cabbage . ' Little Miss PUFFINGTON sang her music charmingly . The base singer has a splendid ...
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... person may be exposed to the open window , propinquity to mud - gutters and so forth being where , in the very hottest weather of the dog- less apparent . A new gong has been lately days , a desirable breeze comes directly from ...
... person may be exposed to the open window , propinquity to mud - gutters and so forth being where , in the very hottest weather of the dog- less apparent . A new gong has been lately days , a desirable breeze comes directly from ...
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... person , ready wit and abundance of animal spirits was yclept , Beau Law . ' A more unscrupulous , unprincipled man , probably , never existed . He was a noted gambler as well as a refugee from justice ; having shot a convivial pot ...
... person , ready wit and abundance of animal spirits was yclept , Beau Law . ' A more unscrupulous , unprincipled man , probably , never existed . He was a noted gambler as well as a refugee from justice ; having shot a convivial pot ...
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