Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... nearly equalizes , through the various classes of mortals , the individual portions of suffer- ing and enjoyment . In the distribution of the seasons , care seems to have been taken that mankind should have the full benefit of this ...
... nearly equalizes , through the various classes of mortals , the individual portions of suffer- ing and enjoyment . In the distribution of the seasons , care seems to have been taken that mankind should have the full benefit of this ...
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... nearly danced the Bible out of the school ! " In conformity with these enlightened views , and in defiance of the sacred writer , who expressly declares that there is a time to dance , the Methodists exclude from their com- munion all ...
... nearly danced the Bible out of the school ! " In conformity with these enlightened views , and in defiance of the sacred writer , who expressly declares that there is a time to dance , the Methodists exclude from their com- munion all ...
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... nearly confined to Manchester and Glasgow . Tired as I was of sitting like a spondee , with my two long feet hanging idle on my hands , ( if the cata- chresis may be allowed , ) I began now to entertain hopes of again planting my ...
... nearly confined to Manchester and Glasgow . Tired as I was of sitting like a spondee , with my two long feet hanging idle on my hands , ( if the cata- chresis may be allowed , ) I began now to entertain hopes of again planting my ...
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... for the accommodation of a few devout old women . His pious inflexibility , on this point , had very nearly occasioned a counter - revolution . " Eh ! mon Dieu , " said the Frenchman in London , 76 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... for the accommodation of a few devout old women . His pious inflexibility , on this point , had very nearly occasioned a counter - revolution . " Eh ! mon Dieu , " said the Frenchman in London , 76 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... nearly broken the heart of the statuary , who was doomed to scoop out of the marble the mean and indented pug - nose of Socrates . Whence did that extraordinary people derive their noble figure noses . rare . and beautiful features ...
... nearly broken the heart of the statuary , who was doomed to scoop out of the marble the mean and indented pug - nose of Socrates . Whence did that extraordinary people derive their noble figure noses . rare . and beautiful features ...
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