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... or any lover of rank so frantically anxious to be noticed by aristocrats as the mother of the marchioness . Either they do these things more thoroughly in France , or M. About must have been drawing on his imagination ...
... or any lover of rank so frantically anxious to be noticed by aristocrats as the mother of the marchioness . Either they do these things more thoroughly in France , or M. About must have been drawing on his imagination ...
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He is not a man of deep thought or fertile imagination ; but he knows that facts are not to be got at without trouble , and that they are not convincing unless stated in considerable ...
He is not a man of deep thought or fertile imagination ; but he knows that facts are not to be got at without trouble , and that they are not convincing unless stated in considerable ...
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... that animals like those told of may in fact have existed ; or , again , how far the fossil remains of the real monsters of the old world may have suggested to the vivid imaginations of men the monsters that we now call fabulous .
... that animals like those told of may in fact have existed ; or , again , how far the fossil remains of the real monsters of the old world may have suggested to the vivid imaginations of men the monsters that we now call fabulous .
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Imagining the power of Richelieu to be indissolubly bound up with that of his great ally , Gaston resolved upon a decisive blow . He was sure of the assistance of Spain and Lorraine ; and he despatched emissaries into France to secure ...
Imagining the power of Richelieu to be indissolubly bound up with that of his great ally , Gaston resolved upon a decisive blow . He was sure of the assistance of Spain and Lorraine ; and he despatched emissaries into France to secure ...
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... in the cloister of the Ursulines ; and , without doubt , his mundane inclinations , his adventures of gallantry , were the principal features in which his unknown image presented itself to the imagination of these young nuns .
... in the cloister of the Ursulines ; and , without doubt , his mundane inclinations , his adventures of gallantry , were the principal features in which his unknown image presented itself to the imagination of these young nuns .
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