A Second Treasury of the World's Great Letters: A Mixed Mailbag Including Intimate Exchanges and Cycles of Correspondence by Famed Men and Women of History and the ArtsWallace Brockway, Bart Keith Winer Simon and Schuster, 1941 - 636 pages Brockway, Wallace & Winer, Bart Keith, ed. |
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Page 109
... keep good watch if the bird leave his cage 99 [ 1567 ] WATCHED later up there [ Kirk o ' Field ] than I would have done , had it not been to draw out what this bearer will tell you : that I find the best matter to excuse your affair ...
... keep good watch if the bird leave his cage 99 [ 1567 ] WATCHED later up there [ Kirk o ' Field ] than I would have done , had it not been to draw out what this bearer will tell you : that I find the best matter to excuse your affair ...
Page 131
... keep quiet , but to keep him from playing the madman ; for when he has the least suspicion , he carries it so strangely that all the world takes notice on't , and so often guess at the reason , or else he tells it . Now , do but you ...
... keep quiet , but to keep him from playing the madman ; for when he has the least suspicion , he carries it so strangely that all the world takes notice on't , and so often guess at the reason , or else he tells it . Now , do but you ...
Page 478
... keep upright , in order that they too may keep their feet . To desire immediate death is as much a weakness as to hope for a long life and I will not allow you to go on thinking that you have the right to do it . I once thought so too ...
... keep upright , in order that they too may keep their feet . To desire immediate death is as much a weakness as to hope for a long life and I will not allow you to go on thinking that you have the right to do it . I once thought so too ...
Contents
A FATAL FRIENDSHIP A SERIES | 3 |
what can be more becoming to a good man | 12 |
SENECA DENOUNCES THE MODERN TREATMENT | 17 |
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