Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... Life to Choose Mind and Body 287 297 306 Account of an Apparition 308 Bond Street in September 317 The Poet among the Trees . 325 Fortune Telling . 328 1 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . PETER PINDARICS . The Mayor iv CONTENTS .
... Life to Choose Mind and Body 287 297 306 Account of an Apparition 308 Bond Street in September 317 The Poet among the Trees . 325 Fortune Telling . 328 1 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . PETER PINDARICS . The Mayor iv CONTENTS .
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... bodies into mummies , valuable for their bitumens and gums , entailed the destruction it meant to avert , we cannot withhold our respect from their funeral orations , one of which has been preserved entire by Porphyry . " When , " says ...
... bodies into mummies , valuable for their bitumens and gums , entailed the destruction it meant to avert , we cannot withhold our respect from their funeral orations , one of which has been preserved entire by Porphyry . " When , " says ...
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... body ; nor have I killed any man , nor have I defrauded any of what has been committed to my trust , nor have I done any thing which is inexpiable . Indeed , whilst I was alive , if I have sinned either by eating or drinking any thing ...
... body ; nor have I killed any man , nor have I defrauded any of what has been committed to my trust , nor have I done any thing which is inexpiable . Indeed , whilst I was alive , if I have sinned either by eating or drinking any thing ...
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... body of his father , the celebrated Miltiades ; -but that we , a Christian and enlightened people , should adopt this barbarism , and refuse so natural a right as that of sepulture for an offence so venial and conventional as that of ...
... body of his father , the celebrated Miltiades ; -but that we , a Christian and enlightened people , should adopt this barbarism , and refuse so natural a right as that of sepulture for an offence so venial and conventional as that of ...
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... bodies for interment ; and yet that method of mouldering back into our constituent elements is loathsome and ... body , or any other monument to be erect- ed to his memory , thinking that this beautiful earth , with its majestic ...
... bodies for interment ; and yet that method of mouldering back into our constituent elements is loathsome and ... body , or any other monument to be erect- ed to his memory , thinking that this beautiful earth , with its majestic ...
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