Fifty Celebrated Men: Their Lives and Trials, and the Deeds that Made Them FamousWard, Lock and Tyler, 1862 - 311 pages |
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... poor that he begged at a monastic house , not so much for himself as for his boy ; -but he never lost sight of the object of his life - to find a new world . Columbus suggested a plan to the Portuguese Court for the fitting out of an ...
... poor that he begged at a monastic house , not so much for himself as for his boy ; -but he never lost sight of the object of his life - to find a new world . Columbus suggested a plan to the Portuguese Court for the fitting out of an ...
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... poor leaky cutter up the sea now known as Davis's Straits , but little is known of this man . He is known to have traded to the Eastern Seas , to have visited India five or more times , and the light which is thrown upon his death ...
... poor leaky cutter up the sea now known as Davis's Straits , but little is known of this man . He is known to have traded to the Eastern Seas , to have visited India five or more times , and the light which is thrown upon his death ...
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... poor as Bartimeus that sat by the wayside begging , Homer went reciting his verses for daily bread . It is probable that he resembled the minstrels of medieval times - the harpers who wan- dered from castle to castle and beguiled the ...
... poor as Bartimeus that sat by the wayside begging , Homer went reciting his verses for daily bread . It is probable that he resembled the minstrels of medieval times - the harpers who wan- dered from castle to castle and beguiled the ...
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... poor , the rude , the most refined- the creatures of fairy land , Titania , Oberon , and all their host , Puck and Ariel , and , awful contrast , Caliban , born of the wretch Sycorax . All life- like - all delineated with so masterly a ...
... poor , the rude , the most refined- the creatures of fairy land , Titania , Oberon , and all their host , Puck and Ariel , and , awful contrast , Caliban , born of the wretch Sycorax . All life- like - all delineated with so masterly a ...
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... poor monk has but little there to cheer his heart ; even social converse is denied him ; he can hear the voices of his brethren singing vespers in the chapel ; but he must not join them , for there is against him a terrible charge- a ...
... poor monk has but little there to cheer his heart ; even social converse is denied him ; he can hear the voices of his brethren singing vespers in the chapel ; but he must not join them , for there is against him a terrible charge- a ...
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