Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... Mutton What 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 .
... Mutton What 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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... mind must be screwed to a high pitch to make it sensible of its own decay ; how must it then be wound up to make it comprehend its own dissolution ! Sense cannot understand its own insensibility , nor can con- sciousness conceive of its ...
... mind must be screwed to a high pitch to make it sensible of its own decay ; how must it then be wound up to make it comprehend its own dissolution ! Sense cannot understand its own insensibility , nor can con- sciousness conceive of its ...
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... mind of the steam - boat , and of a conversation between two parties , one conversing of their children , the other settling the ingredients of a wedding - dinner , whose joint colloquies , as I sat between them , fell upon my ear in ...
... mind of the steam - boat , and of a conversation between two parties , one conversing of their children , the other settling the ingredients of a wedding - dinner , whose joint colloquies , as I sat between them , fell upon my ear in ...
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... mind the smallest misanthropy is a misanthrope : but still society , as it is now constituted in the genteel world , exacts so many sacrifices without rendering any equivalent , compels one to live so much for others and so little for ...
... mind the smallest misanthropy is a misanthrope : but still society , as it is now constituted in the genteel world , exacts so many sacrifices without rendering any equivalent , compels one to live so much for others and so little for ...
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... minds of any sus- ceptibility usually contemplate the beauty of exqui- site proportion --- of the vague apprehension inspired by gigantic bulk --- and of that lingering homage still attaching itself to whatever has been once associated ...
... minds of any sus- ceptibility usually contemplate the beauty of exqui- site proportion --- of the vague apprehension inspired by gigantic bulk --- and of that lingering homage still attaching itself to whatever has been once associated ...
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