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Page 1
The same difference of 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 ...
The same difference of 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 ...
Page 5
To have the feeling of gentility , it is not necessary 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 ...
To have the feeling of gentility , it is not necessary 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 ...
Page 11
... and when he goeth away , you dismiss his chair into a corner , as precipitately
as possible , and 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
...
... and when he goeth away , you dismiss his chair into a corner , as precipitately
as possible , and 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
...
Page 18
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature , to 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 ...
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature , to 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 ...
Page 20
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature , to 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 ...
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature , to 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 ...
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| Title | Last Essays of Elia Volume 3 of Life and works of Charles Lamb : in 12 vol / Charles Lamb Volume 2 of The Temple library |
| Author | Charles Lamb |
| Editor | Augustine Birrell |
| Illustrated by | Herbert Railton |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent, 1888 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Feb 2014 |
| Length | 238 pages |
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