The Writings of Mark TwainHarper, 1911 |
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Pagina 25
... speaking of wages , reminds me of prices of merchandise . In Paris you pay twelve dollars a dozen for Jouvin's best kid gloves ; gloves of about as good quality sell here at three or four dollars a dozen . You pay five and six dollars ...
... speaking of wages , reminds me of prices of merchandise . In Paris you pay twelve dollars a dozen for Jouvin's best kid gloves ; gloves of about as good quality sell here at three or four dollars a dozen . You pay five and six dollars ...
Pagina 34
... speak for in the great , chief thoroughfares ( Merchant Street and the Street of Fortune ) have I not seen with my own eyes how for two hundred years at least the pavements were not repaired ! -how ruts five and even ten inches deep ...
... speak for in the great , chief thoroughfares ( Merchant Street and the Street of Fortune ) have I not seen with my own eyes how for two hundred years at least the pavements were not repaired ! -how ruts five and even ten inches deep ...
Pagina 64
... speak of the famous bridge of boats which Xerxes ordered to be built over the narrowest part of the Hellespont ( where it is only two or three miles wide ) . A moderate gale destroyed the flimsy structure , and the King , thinking that ...
... speak of the famous bridge of boats which Xerxes ordered to be built over the narrowest part of the Hellespont ( where it is only two or three miles wide ) . A moderate gale destroyed the flimsy structure , and the King , thinking that ...
Pagina 85
... speaking praise- fully of Americans to be popular with the Sultan , who does not relish our sympathy with the Cretans , and therefore that paper has to be particularly cir- cumspect in order to keep out of trouble . Once the editor ...
... speaking praise- fully of Americans to be popular with the Sultan , who does not relish our sympathy with the Cretans , and therefore that paper has to be particularly cir- cumspect in order to keep out of trouble . Once the editor ...
Pagina 124
... speak cheerfully and complacently of poor ruined Ephesus as the victim of prophecy . And yet there is no sentence that promises , without due qualification , the destruction of the city . The words are : Remember , therefore , from ...
... speak cheerfully and complacently of poor ruined Ephesus as the victim of prophecy . And yet there is no sentence that promises , without due qualification , the destruction of the city . The words are : Remember , therefore , from ...
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