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" ... case now appears to me, who can be here and there, and wherever they please. What a miserable state, I say, am I fallen to. I should have been glad to have had human converse, and to have found inhabitants in this place; but there being none, as I... "
The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins - Page 146
by Robert Paltock - 1884 - 300 pages
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...consoled himself with the thought, that he was, at last, safe from the ills to which man, in society, is obnoxious to. But now — " what may be the consequence of the next hour, I know not." — Though at a distance, these aerial beings may perceive his thoughts and discontent, and be hatching...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...consoled himself with the thought, that he was, at last, safe from the ills to which man, in society, is obnoxious to. But now — " what may be the consequence of the next hour, I know not." — Though at a distance, these aerial beings may perceive his thoughts and discontent, and be hatching...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 7

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1823 - 426 pages
...consoled himself with the thought, that he was, at last, safe from the ills to which man, in society, is obnoxious to. But now — " what may be the consequence of the next hour, I know not." — Though at a distance, these aerial beings may perceive his thoughts and discontent, and be hatching...
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Letters from a Citizen of the World

Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 578 pages
...inhabitants in this place ; but there being none, as I supposed hitherto, I contented myself with thinking I was at least safe from all those evils mankind in...they may at a distance conceive my thoughts, and be hatchtug revenge against me for my dislike of them. The pressure of my spirits inclining me to repose,...
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Episodes of Fiction, Or, Choice Stories from the Great Novelists, with ...

1869 - 330 pages
...inhabitants in this place; but there being none, as I supposed hitherto, I contented myself with thinking I was at least safe from all those evils mankind in...The pressure of my spirits inclining me to repose, l laid me down, but could get no rest; nor could all my serious thoughts, even of the Almighty Providence,...
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Episodes of Fiction

1870 - 322 pages
...inhabitants in this place; but there being none, as I supposed hitherto, I contented myself with thinking I was at least safe from all those evils mankind in...laid me down, but could get no rest; nor could all my serious thoughts, even of the Almighty Providence, give me relief under my present anxiety; and all...
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The Garland of Poetry and Prose

Garland - Poetry - 1872 - 170 pages
...inhabitants in this place; but there being none, as I supposed hitherto, I contented myself with thinking I was at least safe from all those evils mankind in...laid me down, but could get no rest; nor could all my serious thoughts, even of the Almighty Providence, give me relief under my present anxiety; and all...
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