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... soul less simple and less black than did the followers of Juvenal . In these more charitable days denunciatory satire is a bruised reed , on which if a man lean , it will go into his hand and pierce him . In prose , since the time of ...
... soul less simple and less black than did the followers of Juvenal . In these more charitable days denunciatory satire is a bruised reed , on which if a man lean , it will go into his hand and pierce him . In prose , since the time of ...
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... soul : that the soul was the outward , and the body the inward clothing ; that the latter was ex traduce ; but the former of daily creation and circumfusion . last they proved by Scripture , because , in them we live , and move , and ...
... soul : that the soul was the outward , and the body the inward clothing ; that the latter was ex traduce ; but the former of daily creation and circumfusion . last they proved by Scripture , because , in them we live , and move , and ...
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... And plucks the name of England from his heart . What , shall a name , a word , a sound control The aspiring thought , and cramp the expansive soul ? Shall one half - peopled Island's rocky round A love 306 SELECTIONS FROM BRITISH SATIRISTS.
... And plucks the name of England from his heart . What , shall a name , a word , a sound control The aspiring thought , and cramp the expansive soul ? Shall one half - peopled Island's rocky round A love 306 SELECTIONS FROM BRITISH SATIRISTS.
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