The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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Page 28
... expect when a man tells us a mournful or a merry story . If we suspect the former of falsehood in any one tittle , we reject it altogether . Our tears refuse to flow at a suspected imposition . But the teller We are of a mirthful tale ...
... expect when a man tells us a mournful or a merry story . If we suspect the former of falsehood in any one tittle , we reject it altogether . Our tears refuse to flow at a suspected imposition . But the teller We are of a mirthful tale ...
Page 32
... expect thy aërial house - warming ? Tartarus we know , and we have read of the Blessed Shades ; now cannot I intelligibly fancy thee in either ? Is it too much to hazard a conjecture , that ( as the schoolmen admitted a receptacle apart ...
... expect thy aërial house - warming ? Tartarus we know , and we have read of the Blessed Shades ; now cannot I intelligibly fancy thee in either ? Is it too much to hazard a conjecture , that ( as the schoolmen admitted a receptacle apart ...
Page 43
... expect a Steele , or a Farquhar , and find — Adam Smith . To view a well - arranged assortment of block- headed Encyclopædias ( Anglicanas or Metropolitanas ) set out in an array of Russia , or Morocco , when a tithe of that good ...
... expect a Steele , or a Farquhar , and find — Adam Smith . To view a well - arranged assortment of block- headed Encyclopædias ( Anglicanas or Metropolitanas ) set out in an array of Russia , or Morocco , when a tithe of that good ...
Page 51
... expecting every moment when he shall interpose his interdict , and yet unable to deny themselves the gratification , they " snatch a fearful ioy . " Martin B , 1 in this way , by daily fragments. Keeping clear of secular contacts ...
... expecting every moment when he shall interpose his interdict , and yet unable to deny themselves the gratification , they " snatch a fearful ioy . " Martin B , 1 in this way , by daily fragments. Keeping clear of secular contacts ...
Page 66
... Expect no healthy conclusions from me this month , reader ; I can offer you only sick men's dreams . And truly the whole state of sickness is such ; for what else is it but a magnificent dream for a man to lie abed , and draw daylight ...
... Expect no healthy conclusions from me this month , reader ; I can offer you only sick men's dreams . And truly the whole state of sickness is such ; for what else is it but a magnificent dream for a man to lie abed , and draw daylight ...
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