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William A. Blount suggested that in their exertion for the reclamation of the Swamp Lands it might be proper and most expedient first to ascertain that the state held the lands in undisputed titles, make some convenient selection -- try the experiment on a small schale with means adequate to test its practicability & if that succeeded then to begin on a more enlarged & liberal system.
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II Charles Lee 1908
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You can now form a slight conception of the spiritual nature of our friend who is stuffing kalte schale.
Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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Watch that lively-looking gentleman, who is stuffing kalte schale so voraciously in the corner.
Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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Where is everlasting blysse and never schale be no stryffe.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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Where is everlasting blysse and never schale be no stryffe,
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical Collins, Arthur, 1690?-1760 1812
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In speaking of this, Böttiger calls “Pilgrim’s Progress” “die schale engländische Robinsonade,” an eloquent proof of Böttiger’s ignorance of English literature.] [Footnote 45: Pp. 166 ff.] [Footnote 46: _Quellen und Forschungen_, XXII, p. 129.]
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M.thinks that the best answer to the idealism of M. Fichte is to see his pupil devouring kalte schale! "
Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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