Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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Page 11
... body , and apply to his fire - side for the warmth withheld from him by the sun : hence the two distinguishing traits of his character - mental activity and domestic virtue . It is astonishing that nobody WINTER . 11.
... body , and apply to his fire - side for the warmth withheld from him by the sun : hence the two distinguishing traits of his character - mental activity and domestic virtue . It is astonishing that nobody WINTER . 11.
Page 12
... body must be expected to degenerate ; and I should no more dream of ideas flowing from the benumbed scull of a Laplander or a Kamschatkan , than of water gushing from a frozen plug . If my conjecture as to the influence of climate in ...
... body must be expected to degenerate ; and I should no more dream of ideas flowing from the benumbed scull of a Laplander or a Kamschatkan , than of water gushing from a frozen plug . If my conjecture as to the influence of climate in ...
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... body instead of the soul , he would not have been very remote from the truth ; for he might have drawn from Nature abundant analogy for his * Shelley's Adonais . theory . The rains that fall to reascend in sap 16 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... body instead of the soul , he would not have been very remote from the truth ; for he might have drawn from Nature abundant analogy for his * Shelley's Adonais . theory . The rains that fall to reascend in sap 16 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... body , and placing her hand upon its bosom , exclaimed in a bird- like voice , but infinitely " more tuncable than lark to shepherd's ear , " - " Feel his heart , - ' tis cold as stone ! He's dead - dead - quite dead and gone ! While in ...
... body , and placing her hand upon its bosom , exclaimed in a bird- like voice , but infinitely " more tuncable than lark to shepherd's ear , " - " Feel his heart , - ' tis cold as stone ! He's dead - dead - quite dead and gone ! While in ...
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... bodies to indolence , indulgence , and injurious habits foreign to the original purposes of Nature , we may fairly ... body , temperance , virtue , -these are the ingre- dients of happiness ; these are in the power of all who will ...
... bodies to indolence , indulgence , and injurious habits foreign to the original purposes of Nature , we may fairly ... body , temperance , virtue , -these are the ingre- dients of happiness ; these are in the power of all who will ...
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