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He has doubtless seen everything that is worth seeing in the country he has passed over; and if we cannot accept the whole of his book as literature, we have still the impression that we should find it one of the best and thoroughest of hand-books for travel in Old England.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various
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I solicit from the friend who accompanied Mr. Edgerton the thoroughest statement which he can give me of the case, _ab extra_.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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Bayle -- turning the pages rapidly over and alighting on the exact spot where the thing wanted is to be found -- is far from a superficial faculty, as some deem it to be, -- it is the thoroughest test of active scholarship.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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But suppose them to be the best, and his conformity to them the thoroughest, they never were ordained to get to heaven by, and so are become but a sandy foundation.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658
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