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Two other series of its literary articles have also been republished in book form, while the first portion of a third is already in press No more conclusive facts need be alleged to prove the excellence of the contributions to the CONTINENTAL, or their extraordinary popularity; and its conductors are determined that it shall not fall behind.— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
And the third was a blubber-lipped, weazen-faced skeleton of a negro.— The Pacha of Many Tales
The first, for example, of the four 'Moral Epistles,' is addressed to Cobham, who laid out the famous garden at Stowe, in which 'Capability Brown,' the most popular landscape gardener of the century, was brought up; the third is addressed to Bathurst, an enthusiastic gardener, who had shown his skill at his seat of Richings near Colnbrook; and the fourth to Burlington, whose house and gardens at Chiswick were laid out by Kent, the famous landscape gardener and architect--Brown's predecessor.— English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century
They soon found an opening which proved to be the right one, though a third was afterwards found to exist further along the circular wall of the cavern.— The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific
At the close of the century a third was added, after the Crimean War a fourth, and after the Indian Mutiny of 1857 a fifth.— The Governments of Europe

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