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When a lady of wealth, is seen roaming about in search of cheaper articles, or trying to beat down a shopkeeper, or making a close ...
It always appeared to me that he estimated the compositions of Richardson too highly, and that he had an unreasonable prejudice ag ...
In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as be ...
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of foo ...
But the desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it....
----Endless is the Sea
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The time must come when this coast will be a place of resort for those New-Englanders who really wish to visit the seaside. At pre ...
Once also it was my business to go in search of the relics of a human body, mangled by sharks, which had just been cast up, a week ...
How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world. As the sh ...
His life itself passes deeper in nature than the studies of the naturalist penetrate; himself a subject for the naturalist. The la ...
Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the for ...
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