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...Herbert Spencer, and several other entertaining books in which I was conditioned last year. Sun keeps growing higher and higher. Finally at four o'clock by my watch several men appear in the yard. Among them an English tourist. I know him by his huge field-glasses and numberless portmanteaus. He gets into a carriole. While the men are harnessing the horse, I ask him for the correct time. He says, "Four o'clock," adding, "Nothing like starting off early." His words puzzle me. I ask him if it is morning or afternoon. He stares and replies, "Morning, of course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN. | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

...descendants numberless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/2/1874 | See Source »

Between the acts we have time to wander about above and below the stage. Everywhere scenery. Here we narrowly escape a douche from "WATERFALL No. 2," and further on find shelter in "COTTAGE SCENE" under "LEFT WING," but soon run against "EGYPTIAN TOMB." Down stairs we find numberless trap-doors; then huge wheels and mysterious framework, which remind one of the palmy days of the Inquisition. But soon hammering calls us up stairs again; they are just finishing the tomb. The carpenter is nailing together the parts of the statue of Isis and calling for the missing head, while above...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEHIND THE SCENES. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

...their health of mind, exercise their reasoning faculty and dare to think, in spite of the prefect, in spite of the cure. This class certainly does not constitute a majority, and, in any case, at the first occasion they abandon a position which offers few advantages in return for numberless annoyances and troubles constantly recurring. Indeed, I have not been speaking so much of instructors in particular as of the whole class, and especially of the deplorable system by which they are formed, or, rather, de-formed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF FRANCE. | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

...that among the numberless crowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONG FROM "LOVE'S PLAINT." | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

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