Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... door in one corner , and the fire - place in the centre of the farther end , by which means you will have two snug fire - side places , secure from these reverie - breaking draughts of air ; and if , 6 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... door in one corner , and the fire - place in the centre of the farther end , by which means you will have two snug fire - side places , secure from these reverie - breaking draughts of air ; and if , 6 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
Page 17
... to shoot up in my imagination , and deter- mined me to write a profound essay on the very in- teresting subject of manure ! Not that I mean to be stercoraceous and agrestick , as if I were inditing for HUMAN OSSIFRAGES . 17.
... to shoot up in my imagination , and deter- mined me to write a profound essay on the very in- teresting subject of manure ! Not that I mean to be stercoraceous and agrestick , as if I were inditing for HUMAN OSSIFRAGES . 17.
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... means tenable as to truth . Ingratitude and discontent can never be the constituents of virtue , nor can our un- happiness in this world confer upon us the smallest additional claim to happiness in the next . If it c 2 A SPRIG OF ...
... means tenable as to truth . Ingratitude and discontent can never be the constituents of virtue , nor can our un- happiness in this world confer upon us the smallest additional claim to happiness in the next . If it c 2 A SPRIG OF ...
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... means the inevitable con- comitants of superior station . Exercise of the mind and body , temperance , virtue , -these are the ingre- dients of happiness ; these are in the power of all who will submit to a little self - denial ; and I ...
... means the inevitable con- comitants of superior station . Exercise of the mind and body , temperance , virtue , -these are the ingre- dients of happiness ; these are in the power of all who will submit to a little self - denial ; and I ...
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... means of procuring a copy , of which I submit the first verse to the reader's inspection : - " Kou - onen peing - tcho onen - chang , King - tang shoo kin Cong - foo - tse ; Chong - choo lee - kee kou - chon whang , To - hi tche - kiang ...
... means of procuring a copy , of which I submit the first verse to the reader's inspection : - " Kou - onen peing - tcho onen - chang , King - tang shoo kin Cong - foo - tse ; Chong - choo lee - kee kou - chon whang , To - hi tche - kiang ...
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