Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... feels not Spring 236 Rouge et Noir 238 Invocation to the Cuckoo 256 The Village Bells 258 Beggars Extraordinary ! -Proposals for their Suppres- sion 266 The Bourse at Paris . - England and France . - Buying a Bonnet 276 • • Memoirs of a ...
... feels not Spring 236 Rouge et Noir 238 Invocation to the Cuckoo 256 The Village Bells 258 Beggars Extraordinary ! -Proposals for their Suppres- sion 266 The Bourse at Paris . - England and France . - Buying a Bonnet 276 • • Memoirs of a ...
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... feeling . " Men are but children of a larger growth : " Xerxes flogged and threw chains upon the sea , for wrecking his vessels ; the poor Indian , whose untutored mind " sees God in clouds , and hears him in the wind , " considers the ...
... feeling . " Men are but children of a larger growth : " Xerxes flogged and threw chains upon the sea , for wrecking his vessels ; the poor Indian , whose untutored mind " sees God in clouds , and hears him in the wind , " considers the ...
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... feel an antipathy towards a whale , be- cause it has a tendency to blubber ; I abominate the common crier , simply on account of his name ; I would rather get wet through than seek shelter under a weep- ing willow , and I instinctively ...
... feel an antipathy towards a whale , be- cause it has a tendency to blubber ; I abominate the common crier , simply on account of his name ; I would rather get wet through than seek shelter under a weep- ing willow , and I instinctively ...
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... feel bound to state , that one of these very kinsmen whom I had accused of apathy , came forward in the most friendly manner to borrow a sum of money of me , paying me , as he declared , the compliment of his first application , even at ...
... feel bound to state , that one of these very kinsmen whom I had accused of apathy , came forward in the most friendly manner to borrow a sum of money of me , paying me , as he declared , the compliment of his first application , even at ...
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... parent ; and after they have served that purpose , are too often for- gotten ; but then the feeling at the moment is so kind- hearted - so considerate - so benevolent ! Let me repeat , however , that a man is 30 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... parent ; and after they have served that purpose , are too often for- gotten ; but then the feeling at the moment is so kind- hearted - so considerate - so benevolent ! Let me repeat , however , that a man is 30 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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