The Houblon Family: Its Story and Times, Том 2

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Сторінка 28 - It is the happiness of a trading nation like ours that the younger sons, though incapable of any liberal art or profession, may be placed in such a way of life as may perhaps enable them to vie with the best of their family. Accordingly we find several citizens that were launched into the world with narrow fortunes rising by an honest industry...
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Сторінка 280 - ... you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, With their frequent repetitions, And their wild reverberations, As of thunder in the mountains ? I should answer, I should tell you, I repeat them as I heard them From the lips of Nawadaha.
Сторінка 43 - If he should travel about the country, he would have hecatombs of roasted oxen sacrificed to him.
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