The Last Essays of EliaG. Routledge & sons, 1880 - 119 pages |
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Page 10
... human victim at this rate . The burnt ashes of a man weigh more in their proportion . Had I seen these brick - and- mortar knaves at their process of destruction , at the plucking of every panel I should have felt the varlets at my ...
... human victim at this rate . The burnt ashes of a man weigh more in their proportion . Had I seen these brick - and- mortar knaves at their process of destruction , at the plucking of every panel I should have felt the varlets at my ...
Page 88
... Humanity is too gross to breathe the air of that super - subtile region , its portion was , and is , to be a child for ever . And because the human part of it might not press into the heart and inwards of the palace of its adoption ...
... Humanity is too gross to breathe the air of that super - subtile region , its portion was , and is , to be a child for ever . And because the human part of it might not press into the heart and inwards of the palace of its adoption ...
Page 89
... human allowance , thou mayest virtuously mingle with thy disapprobation . Trample not on the ruins of a man . Exact not , under so terrible a penalty as infamy , a resuscitation from a state of death almost as real aе- that from which ...
... human allowance , thou mayest virtuously mingle with thy disapprobation . Trample not on the ruins of a man . Exact not , under so terrible a penalty as infamy , a resuscitation from a state of death almost as real aе- that from which ...
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