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简介： O reticent was Miss Manning in her lifetime, and so loyally have her wishes been obeyed by her kindred since her death, that when Mr. Nimmo last year re-published her beautiful memorial portrait, The Household of Sir Thomas More, it was clear that wh...
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简介： The memoranda which form the basis of the following Essay have been thrown together during the preparation of one of the sections of the third volume of Modern Painters.[A] I once thought of giving them a more expanded form; but their utility, such a...
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简介： Mananaan Mac Lir who rules the ocean took the little Sun-God, Lugh, in his arms and held him up so that he could see the whole of Ireland with the waves whispering about it everywhere....
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简介： One morning, just as I was about to set off to my office, Agrafena, my cook, washerwoman and housekeeper, came in to me and, to my surprise, entered into conversation....
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简介： Each man born into the world is born like Shelton in this bookto go a journey, and for the most part he is born on the high road. At first he sits there in the dust, with his little chubby hands reaching at nothing, and his little solemn eyes staring...
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简介： The shrill treble of a girl's voice, raised to its highest pitch in anger and remonstrance, broke in upon the scholarly meditations of the teacher of the Ridgemont grammar school. He raised his head from his book to listen. It came again, mingled wit...
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简介： From the outbreak of war until to-day I have hesitated to write this book. But I now feel impelled to do so by a sense of duty....
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简介： The following Narrative was taken entirely from the lips of Peter Wheeler. I have in all instances given his own language, and faithfully recorded his story as he told it, without any change whatever. There are many astonishing facts related in this...
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简介： No other branch of the Federal Government furnishes employment to so many men as the postal service, particularly that branch of it in which letter carriers and clerks are used. In every city vacancies occur frequently, by reason of death, resignatio...
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简介： The substance of this little work was first published as a series of articles in the British Clayworker, in 189596, and I am indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietor of that Journal for permission to reproduce them....
