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Street West and wrote a personal note to every city editor in New York, setting forth in each instance the magnificent intellectual proportions of the epistolographer.
When Winter Comes to Main Street Grant Martin Overton 1908
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a man like Eulaeus hears not only with his own ears but with those of thousand others, and almost everything that occurs at court has to go through his hands as epistolographer.
The Sisters — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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“Letters of John Ruskin to his Secretary,” which, as the anonymous contributor remarked, illustrate “Ruskin the worker, as he acts away from the eyes of the world; Ruskin the epistolographer, when the eventuality of the printing-press is not for the moment before him Ruskin the good Samaritan, ever gentle and open-handed when true need and a good cause make appeal to his tender heart; Ruskin the employer, considerate, generous ” an ideal master.”
The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911
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In the _New Review_ for March 1892, there appeared a series of "Letters of John Ruskin to his Secretary," which, as the anonymous contributor remarked, illustrate "Ruskin the worker, as he acts away from the eyes of the world; Ruskin the epistolographer, when the eventuality of the printing-press is not for the moment before him Ruskin the good
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"By which gate did the epistolographer Eulaeus depart?
The Sisters — Volume 3 Georg Ebers 1867
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"Softly, softly, my friend," said the recluse, "and not now only, but about everything which you under take in behalf of the sisters, for a man like Eulaeus hears not only with his own ears but with those of thousand others, and almost everything that occurs at court has to go through his hands as epistolographer.
The Sisters — Volume 1 Georg Ebers 1867
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"Serapion greets Publius Scipio, and acquaints him that Irene, the younger sister of Klea, the water-bearer, has disappeared from this temple, and, as Serapion suspects, by the wiles of the epistolographer
The Sisters — Volume 3 Georg Ebers 1867
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"By which gate did the epistolographer Eulaeus depart?
The Sisters — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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"By which gate did the epistolographer Eulaeus depart?
The Sisters — Volume 3 Georg Ebers 1867
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"Serapion greets Publius Scipio, and acquaints him that Irene, the younger sister of Klea, the water-bearer, has disappeared from this temple, and, as Serapion suspects, by the wiles of the epistolographer
The Sisters — Volume 3 Georg Ebers 1867
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