The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 2 |
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... lives as were passed by the most en- lightened of our ancestors . And yet , doubly precious as this state of being has become , how many are com- pelled to throw away life for a livelihood , et 12 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR ,
... lives as were passed by the most en- lightened of our ancestors . And yet , doubly precious as this state of being has become , how many are com- pelled to throw away life for a livelihood , et 12 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR ,
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... become shadowy to the bodily eye , as they are more remote , but to the mental eye of age , the most distant are the most distinct . A man of eighty may forget that he was seventy , but he never forgets that he was once a boy . Who can ...
... become shadowy to the bodily eye , as they are more remote , but to the mental eye of age , the most distant are the most distinct . A man of eighty may forget that he was seventy , but he never forgets that he was once a boy . Who can ...
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... becoming suddenly devout when we imagine that we may be shortly summoned to appear in the next . MORAL CHOLERA.- " It is easier , " says St. Gregory Nazianzen , " to contract the vices of others than to impart to them our own virtue ...
... becoming suddenly devout when we imagine that we may be shortly summoned to appear in the next . MORAL CHOLERA.- " It is easier , " says St. Gregory Nazianzen , " to contract the vices of others than to impart to them our own virtue ...
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... becomes the principal pursuit ; art leads to riches and luxury , and these to enervation and subjection . On the high and barren places , man's occupations render him more conversant with nature , an inter- course which inseparably ...
... becomes the principal pursuit ; art leads to riches and luxury , and these to enervation and subjection . On the high and barren places , man's occupations render him more conversant with nature , an inter- course which inseparably ...
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... become of the ninth . 66 Monsieur , je ne vous dirois pas , " replied the man ; - " mais probablement elle s'amuse avec Apollon ! " - An English operative would hardly have given such an answer . once expressed his surprise that , in so ...
... become of the ninth . 66 Monsieur , je ne vous dirois pas , " replied the man ; - " mais probablement elle s'amuse avec Apollon ! " - An English operative would hardly have given such an answer . once expressed his surprise that , in so ...
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