Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... thought of constructing an Intellectual Reaumur , graduated according to the degrees of cold , and shewing at one glance how much literary talent may be calculated upon in the different capitals of Europe . Up to a certain point ...
... thought of constructing an Intellectual Reaumur , graduated according to the degrees of cold , and shewing at one glance how much literary talent may be calculated upon in the different capitals of Europe . Up to a certain point ...
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... And partly from the want of sense ! The Briton thought this exclamation Meant some reflection on his nation , So bustling to the Frenchman's side , " Mounseer Jack THE ENGLISHMAN IN FRANCE . 13 The Englishman in France.
... And partly from the want of sense ! The Briton thought this exclamation Meant some reflection on his nation , So bustling to the Frenchman's side , " Mounseer Jack THE ENGLISHMAN IN FRANCE . 13 The Englishman in France.
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... thought it was a jubilee in heaven - that all its glorious magnificence was put forth ; and as I contemplated the sky , and sea , and earth , and all the sublime pageant of creation , I felt lifted above humanity and its petty thoughts ...
... thought it was a jubilee in heaven - that all its glorious magnificence was put forth ; and as I contemplated the sky , and sea , and earth , and all the sublime pageant of creation , I felt lifted above humanity and its petty thoughts ...
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... thought that we must be shortly torn away from earth and all its at- tractions ! And then with a paviour's sigh he quotes from Horace- " Linquenda tellus et domus , et placens uxor . ” — Most perverse and insatiable malcontent , dost ...
... thought that we must be shortly torn away from earth and all its at- tractions ! And then with a paviour's sigh he quotes from Horace- " Linquenda tellus et domus , et placens uxor . ” — Most perverse and insatiable malcontent , dost ...
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... thoughts , than have his tongue betray all the secrets of his bosom , unless we could approximate his nature nearer to the angelic . I do not acknowledge Truth to be more my friend than Plato ; it is because she is great , and in some ...
... thoughts , than have his tongue betray all the secrets of his bosom , unless we could approximate his nature nearer to the angelic . I do not acknowledge Truth to be more my friend than Plato ; it is because she is great , and in some ...
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