Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad: With Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected, and a New Edition of the "Diary of an Ennuyee.", Band 1Harper & Brothers, 1834 Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860) was a British writer, fiminist, and art historian who became widely known for her "Charactoristics of Women" published in 1832 and "Winter Studies and Summer Ramblings in Canada" published in 1838, based on her travels through upper Canada and northern Michigan in 1836 and 1837 |
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... thing to send into the world a book requiring a preface of apologies ; and yet more absurd to presume that any deprecation on the part of the author could possibly win indulgence for what should be in itself worthless . For this reason ...
... thing to send into the world a book requiring a preface of apologies ; and yet more absurd to presume that any deprecation on the part of the author could possibly win indulgence for what should be in itself worthless . For this reason ...
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... thing of the real author : -- and that some false dates , un- important circumstances , and fictitious characters , were afterward interpolated to conceal , if possible , the real purport and origin of the work ; for the intention was ...
... thing of the real author : -- and that some false dates , un- important circumstances , and fictitious characters , were afterward interpolated to conceal , if possible , the real purport and origin of the work ; for the intention was ...
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... things past , " his shreds of remem- brance , in beggarly , indolent fashion , over your own fireside ? You are afraid ... thing- ALDA . - Finish the sentence - any how , for truth's sake . But how is the cause of truth to be advanced by ...
... things past , " his shreds of remem- brance , in beggarly , indolent fashion , over your own fireside ? You are afraid ... thing- ALDA . - Finish the sentence - any how , for truth's sake . But how is the cause of truth to be advanced by ...
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... thing of the public and national systems . ) Can you give some accurate notion of the ideas which generally prevail on this subject ? ALDA . O no ! you have mentioned things which would require a life to study . Merely to have thought ...
... thing of the public and national systems . ) Can you give some accurate notion of the ideas which generally prevail on this subject ? ALDA . O no ! you have mentioned things which would require a life to study . Merely to have thought ...
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... things for granted ; who are the echoes of others ' opinions , the utterers of others ' words ; who think they know , and who think they think : I am sick of them all . Come , refresh me with a little ignorance -- and be serious . ALDA ...
... things for granted ; who are the echoes of others ' opinions , the utterers of others ' words ; who think they know , and who think they think : I am sick of them all . Come , refresh me with a little ignorance -- and be serious . ALDA ...
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