The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1900 - 254 pages |
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... truth he was but struggling to give his poor thoughts articulation . He chose his companions for some individuality of character which they manifested . Hence , not many persons of science and few professed literati , were of his ...
... truth he was but struggling to give his poor thoughts articulation . He chose his companions for some individuality of character which they manifested . Hence , not many persons of science and few professed literati , were of his ...
Page 38
... truth which we expect when a man tells us a mournful or a merry story . If we sus- pect the former of falsehood in any one tittle , we reject it altogether . Our tears refuse to flow at a suspected imposition . But the teller of a ...
... truth which we expect when a man tells us a mournful or a merry story . If we sus- pect the former of falsehood in any one tittle , we reject it altogether . Our tears refuse to flow at a suspected imposition . But the teller of a ...
Page 189
... truth , that there is none , -none that I can find . In my stage of habit ( I speak not of habits less confirmed - for some of them I believe the advice to be most prudential ) , in the stage which I have reached , to stop short of that ...
... truth , that there is none , -none that I can find . In my stage of habit ( I speak not of habits less confirmed - for some of them I believe the advice to be most prudential ) , in the stage which I have reached , to stop short of that ...
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