The portrait of a Christian gentleman, a memoir of P. F. TytlerJ. Murray, 1859 - 356 pages |
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... hand of Raeburn . William Tytler be- came an author simply because he desired to obtain a wider audience for the opinions which he privately advocated , than conversation could supply : while his intense nationality de- cided the ...
... hand of Raeburn . William Tytler be- came an author simply because he desired to obtain a wider audience for the opinions which he privately advocated , than conversation could supply : while his intense nationality de- cided the ...
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... hands . It was the transcribed result of many patient pencillings , through the long days of summer , when feeble health had kept the writer , for the most part , a prisoner at home . She completed her task in the spring of 1856 , and ...
... hands . It was the transcribed result of many patient pencillings , through the long days of summer , when feeble health had kept the writer , for the most part , a prisoner at home . She completed her task in the spring of 1856 , and ...
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... hand ; and a scrap of paper was long re- tained in the family , on which was drawn a very wonderful beast , with a strange variety of legs and an enormous mouth , and under which was printed in large capital letters , The Crater of ...
... hand ; and a scrap of paper was long re- tained in the family , on which was drawn a very wonderful beast , with a strange variety of legs and an enormous mouth , and under which was printed in large capital letters , The Crater of ...
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... hands that girded on his sword on the eve of the battle . He left her at Brussels , and she never saw him again till she was told he had been carried off the field mortally wounded , and no one knew exactly where he had been taken . It ...
... hands that girded on his sword on the eve of the battle . He left her at Brussels , and she never saw him again till she was told he had been carried off the field mortally wounded , and no one knew exactly where he had been taken . It ...
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... which have come into my hands , I find an interesting letter from this accomplished gentleman to his friend and patron , which , suppers were often prolonged by my father insisting on all 24 [ CHAP . II . REV . JOHN BLACK.
... which have come into my hands , I find an interesting letter from this accomplished gentleman to his friend and patron , which , suppers were often prolonged by my father insisting on all 24 [ CHAP . II . REV . JOHN BLACK.
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