Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... animals to be participators . " Is it a crime , " he exclaimed , " that having endeavoured to benefit mankind in my life , my body should do the same to beasts after my death ? " What sepulchre so sublime as the mighty ocean , with its ...
... animals to be participators . " Is it a crime , " he exclaimed , " that having endeavoured to benefit mankind in my life , my body should do the same to beasts after my death ? " What sepulchre so sublime as the mighty ocean , with its ...
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... animal , most ludicrously curled and greased , and who were solemnly pronouncing sentence of destruc- tion upon others , while they themselves were perpetu- ally exploding into similar nothingness . Here strutted a gay figure in scarlet ...
... animal , most ludicrously curled and greased , and who were solemnly pronouncing sentence of destruc- tion upon others , while they themselves were perpetu- ally exploding into similar nothingness . Here strutted a gay figure in scarlet ...
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... Animals were meant to cry , for they have no other mode of expression ; and infants , who are in the same predicament , are provided with a similar resource ; but when we arrive at man's estate ( the only one to which I ever succeeded ) ...
... Animals were meant to cry , for they have no other mode of expression ; and infants , who are in the same predicament , are provided with a similar resource ; but when we arrive at man's estate ( the only one to which I ever succeeded ) ...
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... Animal laughter , which may be produced by tickling , or by that happy and healthy organization which occasions a constant flow of the animal spirits . Unnatural laughter , which sometimes accompanies the triumph of the most malignant ...
... Animal laughter , which may be produced by tickling , or by that happy and healthy organization which occasions a constant flow of the animal spirits . Unnatural laughter , which sometimes accompanies the triumph of the most malignant ...
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... animal charac- ter : -those of Socrates ( a solitary instance ) occupy nearly the middle of his head : to this they attribute his superior wisdom ; and by the wisdom of his head they measure their admiration of its form . " The statue ...
... animal charac- ter : -those of Socrates ( a solitary instance ) occupy nearly the middle of his head : to this they attribute his superior wisdom ; and by the wisdom of his head they measure their admiration of its form . " The statue ...
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