Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... seems to have been taken that mankind should have the full benefit of this system of equivalents . To an admirer of ... seem , with a scowl , to warn us off their premises ; when the leafless trees stand like gaunt skeletons , while ...
... seems to have been taken that mankind should have the full benefit of this system of equivalents . To an admirer of ... seem , with a scowl , to warn us off their premises ; when the leafless trees stand like gaunt skeletons , while ...
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... Let us but strive To love our fellow - men as heaven loves us , ( Which is true piety , ) and earth will seem Itself a heaven . " - That the quantity of human happiness actually enjoyed is less 30 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... Let us but strive To love our fellow - men as heaven loves us , ( Which is true piety , ) and earth will seem Itself a heaven . " - That the quantity of human happiness actually enjoyed is less 30 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... seems to intimate its being occasionally used as a species of extreme unction among the ancients . The late Emperor of China , Kien Long , of pious me- mory , composed a laudatory ode upon this fragrant product of his country , and a ...
... seems to intimate its being occasionally used as a species of extreme unction among the ancients . The late Emperor of China , Kien Long , of pious me- mory , composed a laudatory ode upon this fragrant product of his country , and a ...
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... seem to have been practised by secular , as well as spiritual , performers . The daughters of Shiloh were thus recreating themselves in the vine- yards , when they were caught by the young men of the tribe of Benjamin , who presently ...
... seem to have been practised by secular , as well as spiritual , performers . The daughters of Shiloh were thus recreating themselves in the vine- yards , when they were caught by the young men of the tribe of Benjamin , who presently ...
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... seems to be a species of saltatory suicide . I never saw the figurantes at the Opera whirling their pirouettes , like whipping - tops , without wishing to be near them with a stout thong , that I might keep up the resemblance ; and as ...
... seems to be a species of saltatory suicide . I never saw the figurantes at the Opera whirling their pirouettes , like whipping - tops , without wishing to be near them with a stout thong , that I might keep up the resemblance ; and as ...
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