Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... luxuries of the rich into severe correctives , and thus pretty 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 ...
... luxuries of the rich into severe correctives , and thus pretty 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 ...
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... luxurious , how I account for their ancestors having built Rome and conquered the world . He is no genuine theorist who cannot annihilate both time and space to reconcile contradictions . But I am not driven to this necessity , as I ...
... luxurious , how I account for their ancestors having built Rome and conquered the world . He is no genuine theorist who cannot annihilate both time and space to reconcile contradictions . But I am not driven to this necessity , as I ...
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... luxury ? And that they may not leave a single sense ungratified , do not the greater part of them emit delicious fragrance , while myriads of flowers impregnate the very winds with odours the most exquisite ? Yet these ministerings to ...
... luxury ? And that they may not leave a single sense ungratified , do not the greater part of them emit delicious fragrance , while myriads of flowers impregnate the very winds with odours the most exquisite ? Yet these ministerings to ...
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... luxury , excess , and all those sophis- tications which highly civilized life introduces , un- doubtedly tend to destroy , or at least vitiate , our susceptibility to natural and simple pleasures . Of the laws which regulate the ...
... luxury , excess , and all those sophis- tications which highly civilized life introduces , un- doubtedly tend to destroy , or at least vitiate , our susceptibility to natural and simple pleasures . Of the laws which regulate the ...
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... luxury of woe , and pathetically exclaim in the language of Rogers- " Go , you may call it madness , folly , You shall not steal away my rest ; There's such a charm in melancholy , I would not , if I could , be blest . Oh if you knew ...
... luxury of woe , and pathetically exclaim in the language of Rogers- " Go , you may call it madness , folly , You shall not steal away my rest ; There's such a charm in melancholy , I would not , if I could , be blest . Oh if you knew ...
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