Wanting it, what savage unsocial nights must our ancestors have spent, wintering in caves and unillumined fastnesses ! They must have lain about and grumbled at one another in the dark. What repartees could have passed, when you must have felt about for... Biographical Essays - Page 181by Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
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