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... feeling , I think , attends us between entering an empty and a crowded church . In the latter it is chance but some present human frailty - an act of inattention on the part of some of the auditory - or a trait of affectation , or worse ...
... feeling , I think , attends us between entering an empty and a crowded church . In the latter it is chance but some present human frailty - an act of inattention on the part of some of the auditory - or a trait of affectation , or worse ...
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... feeling of gentility , it is not neces- sary to have been born gentle . The pride of ancestry may be had on cheaper terms than to be obliged to an importunate race of ancestors ; and the coatless antiquary in his unemblazoned cell ...
... feeling of gentility , it is not neces- sary to have been born gentle . The pride of ancestry may be had on cheaper terms than to be obliged to an importunate race of ancestors ; and the coatless antiquary in his unemblazoned cell ...
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... feel fairly rid of two nuisances . There is a worse evil under the sun , and that is -a female Poor Relation . You may do something with the other ; you may pass him off tolerably well ; but your indigent she - relative is hopeless ...
... feel fairly rid of two nuisances . There is a worse evil under the sun , and that is -a female Poor Relation . You may do something with the other ; you may pass him off tolerably well ; but your indigent she - relative is hopeless ...
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... feel in ourselves , or to contemplate in another , is , perhaps , cowardice . To see a coward done to the life upon a stage would produce anything but mirth . Yet we most of us remember Jack Ban- nister's cowards . Could anything be ...
... feel in ourselves , or to contemplate in another , is , perhaps , cowardice . To see a coward done to the life upon a stage would produce anything but mirth . Yet we most of us remember Jack Ban- nister's cowards . Could anything be ...
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... feeling on thy last bed , which , connecting the man with the boy , took thee back to thy latest exercise of imagi- nation , to the days when , undreaming of Theatres and Managerships , thou wert a scholar , and an early ripe one ...
... feeling on thy last bed , which , connecting the man with the boy , took thee back to thy latest exercise of imagi- nation , to the days when , undreaming of Theatres and Managerships , thou wert a scholar , and an early ripe one ...
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