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Page 46
... hath your borrower ! what rosy gills ! what a beautiful reliance on Providence doth he manifest , -taking no more thought than lilies ! What contempt for money , -accounting it ( yours and mine especially ) no better than dross ! What a ...
... hath your borrower ! what rosy gills ! what a beautiful reliance on Providence doth he manifest , -taking no more thought than lilies ! What contempt for money , -accounting it ( yours and mine especially ) no better than dross ! What a ...
Page 53
... abstruser cogitations of the Greville , now , alas ! wandering in Pagan lands — I counsel thee , shut not thy heart , nor thy library , against S. T. C. Religio Medic CEBroe E NEW YEAR'S EVE VERY man hath two birth THE TWO RACES OF MEN 53.
... abstruser cogitations of the Greville , now , alas ! wandering in Pagan lands — I counsel thee , shut not thy heart , nor thy library , against S. T. C. Religio Medic CEBroe E NEW YEAR'S EVE VERY man hath two birth THE TWO RACES OF MEN 53.
Page 54
... hath nearly passed away , or is left to children , who reflect nothing . at all about the matter , nor understand any thing in it beyond cake and orange . But the birth of a New Year is of an interest too wide to be pretermitted by king ...
... hath nearly passed away , or is left to children , who reflect nothing . at all about the matter , nor understand any thing in it beyond cake and orange . But the birth of a New Year is of an interest too wide to be pretermitted by king ...
Page 60
... hath a man , that he shall lie down with kings and emperors in death , " who in his life - time never greatly coveted the society of such bed - fellows ? - or , forsooth , that , " so shall the fairest face appear ? " -- why , to ...
... hath a man , that he shall lie down with kings and emperors in death , " who in his life - time never greatly coveted the society of such bed - fellows ? - or , forsooth , that , " so shall the fairest face appear ? " -- why , to ...
Page 75
... hath the loyalty of Elia never been impeached . I am not without suspicion , that I have an undeveloped faculty of music within me . For , thrumming , in my wild way , on my friend A.'s piano , the other morning , while he was engaged ...
... hath the loyalty of Elia never been impeached . I am not without suspicion , that I have an undeveloped faculty of music within me . For , thrumming , in my wild way , on my friend A.'s piano , the other morning , while he was engaged ...
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