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INC. 286-302 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK {iii} EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS ESSAYS FIFTEEN DISCOURSES DELIVERED IN THE ROYAL ACADEMY BY SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS · INTRO- DUCTION
— from Fifteen Discourses by Reynolds, Joshua, Sir

left everything behind except rod
The climb through the woods promised to be a hard one, so I left everything behind except rod, reel, and fly-book.
— from A Little Brother to the Bear, and other Animal Studies by William J. (William Joseph) Long

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The Naturalist on the River Amazons EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS SCIENCE BATES’ NATURALIST ON THE AMAZONS WITH AN APPRECIATION BY DARWIN
— from The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates

little experience be easily read
You will now understand that simple ciphers can with a little experience be easily read.
— from The Boy's Own Book of Indoor Games and Recreations A Popular Encyclopædia for Boys by Gordon Stables

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Cynthia's Revels; Or, The Fountain of Self-Love CYNTHIA'S REVELS By Ben Johnson Ben Jonson's Plays With An Introduction By Prof. Felix E. Schelling Volume One Everyman's Library Edited By Ernest Rhys POETRY AND THE DRAMA THE COMPLETE PLAYS OF BEN JONSON VOLUME ONE FIRST ISSUE OF THIS EDITION: 1910 REPRINTED: 1915 Contents INTRODUCTION CYNTHIA'S REVELS: DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
— from Cynthia's Revels; Or, The Fountain of Self-Love by Ben Jonson

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The Æneid of Virgil, Translated into English Verse EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS CLASSICAL
— from The Æneid of Virgil, Translated into English Verse by Virgil

life ever busy ever rejoicing
He will learn from them to look up to God as the Lord and Giver of life, health, strength; of the power to work, and the power to delight in working: because God himself is ever full of life, ever busy, ever rejoicing to put forth his almighty power for the good of the whole universe, as it is written, ‘My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.’
— from The Good News of God by Charles Kingsley

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8.—Everyman's Library, edited by Ernest Rhys—Travel and Topography—Marco Polo's Travels with an Introduction by John Masefield.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa


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