Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... tion which might be beneficially revived , if it were likely to operate on the Sovereigns at the next Con- gress of the Holy Alliance . In those barbarous ages we cannot marvel that the body of the deceased might be legally detained for ...
... tion which might be beneficially revived , if it were likely to operate on the Sovereigns at the next Con- gress of the Holy Alliance . In those barbarous ages we cannot marvel that the body of the deceased might be legally detained for ...
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... , 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 , who had not only THE WISDOM OF LAUGHTER . 15.
... , 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 , who had not only THE WISDOM OF LAUGHTER . 15.
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... tion directs the needle to the north ; the divining rod oscillates in obscure communion with the subterranean spring ; and by some such recondite law did the affec- tions of my kindred duly point south - west from Lon- don , and the ...
... tion directs the needle to the north ; the divining rod oscillates in obscure communion with the subterranean spring ; and by some such recondite law did the affec- tions of my kindred duly point south - west from Lon- don , and the ...
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... tion , and that I shall again be able to exclaim with old Dornton in the play --- " Who would not be a father ? " Is it nothing that but I have de- scribed this happy moment till I can wait for its ar- rival no longer . God bless ye ...
... tion , and that I shall again be able to exclaim with old Dornton in the play --- " Who would not be a father ? " Is it nothing that but I have de- scribed this happy moment till I can wait for its ar- rival no longer . God bless ye ...
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... tion , when the serenity of Nature's silence imparts a congenial balm and tranquillity to the heart . Gazing upon the face of Nature , we shall encounter no human passions , no distrust , no jealousy , no intermission of friendship or ...
... tion , when the serenity of Nature's silence imparts a congenial balm and tranquillity to the heart . Gazing upon the face of Nature , we shall encounter no human passions , no distrust , no jealousy , no intermission of friendship or ...
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