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It was too much for Cooke, after having so frequently disappointed full houses, to be obliged to play to an empty theatre. It was like playing whist with _dummy_. However, towar...
2. Chapter 2The whole group of the _Thousand Islands_, and indeed the greater part of all those whose surfaces are flat, in the neighbourhood of the equator, owe their origin to the labours...
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4. Chapter 4A very valuable musical manuscript, by Guillaume de Machault, who was _valet de chambre_ to Phillippe-le-Bel, in 1307, has been discovered in the royal library at Paris. It cont...