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Page 56
... become the place . I like a smuggler . He is the only honest thief . He robs nothing but the revenue , -an abstraction I never greatly cared about . I could go out with them in their mackarel boats , or about their less ostensible ...
... become the place . I like a smuggler . He is the only honest thief . He robs nothing but the revenue , -an abstraction I never greatly cared about . I could go out with them in their mackarel boats , or about their less ostensible ...
Page 59
... become insensible to all the opera- tions of life , except the beatings of one feeble pulse ? If there be a regal solitude , it is a sick bed . How the patient lords it there ; what caprices he acts without controul ! how king - like he ...
... become insensible to all the opera- tions of life , except the beatings of one feeble pulse ? If there be a regal solitude , it is a sick bed . How the patient lords it there ; what caprices he acts without controul ! how king - like he ...
Page 64
... become an ordinary personage . Perhaps some relic of the sick man's dream of greatness survives in the still lingering visitations of the medical attendant . But how is he too changed with every thing else ! Can this be he- this man of ...
... become an ordinary personage . Perhaps some relic of the sick man's dream of greatness survives in the still lingering visitations of the medical attendant . But how is he too changed with every thing else ! Can this be he- this man of ...
Page 65
... becomes a Tityus to himself are wasting to a span ; and for the giant of self - importance , which I was so lately , you have me once again in my natural pretensions - the lean and meagre figure of your insignificant Essayist . SANITY ...
... becomes a Tityus to himself are wasting to a span ; and for the giant of self - importance , which I was so lately , you have me once again in my natural pretensions - the lean and meagre figure of your insignificant Essayist . SANITY ...
Page 69
... becomes the god of all the treasures of the world ; and has a daughter , Ambition , before whom all the world kneels for favours - with the Hesperian fruit , the waters of Tantalus , with Pilate washing his hands vainly , but not ...
... becomes the god of all the treasures of the world ; and has a daughter , Ambition , before whom all the world kneels for favours - with the Hesperian fruit , the waters of Tantalus , with Pilate washing his hands vainly , but not ...
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