Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... Reason herself assuring us that it is a fond and foolish yearning to take heed for the worthless tegument , when the immortal spirit it en- shrined has fled . Reason is a stout theorist , but very often a sorry practitioner : so we talk ...
... Reason herself assuring us that it is a fond and foolish yearning to take heed for the worthless tegument , when the immortal spirit it en- shrined has fled . Reason is a stout theorist , but very often a sorry practitioner : so we talk ...
Page 8
... reasons with its doll as if it were a rational being , oc- casionally beating the stool over which it has stumbled , and the floor upon which it has fallen , as if they were endued with feeling . " Men are but children of a larger ...
... reasons with its doll as if it were a rational being , oc- casionally beating the stool over which it has stumbled , and the floor upon which it has fallen , as if they were endued with feeling . " Men are but children of a larger ...
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... reason , is peculiar to man , and one may , therefore , fairly assume that they illustrate and sympathize with one another . Animals were meant to cry , for they have no other mode of expression ; and infants , who are in the same ...
... reason , is peculiar to man , and one may , therefore , fairly assume that they illustrate and sympathize with one another . Animals were meant to cry , for they have no other mode of expression ; and infants , who are in the same ...
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... - proportionate length , is generally represented cover- ed with a helmet , and who , for the same reason , has received from the comic poets the name of the onion- headed . The youth beside him is his eldest son 40 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... - proportionate length , is generally represented cover- ed with a helmet , and who , for the same reason , has received from the comic poets the name of the onion- headed . The youth beside him is his eldest son 40 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... reason why this didactic hand- writing on the wall has ever proved an unavailing warning . Besides , there are many of maturer age who above all things dislike an apophthegm , which , preventing the complacent exercise of their own ...
... reason why this didactic hand- writing on the wall has ever proved an unavailing warning . Besides , there are many of maturer age who above all things dislike an apophthegm , which , preventing the complacent exercise of their own ...
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