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... feeling of uneasiness remained on the other side . The story got into the Caledonian Mercury , at the time , so that the above misrepresentation must have pro- ceeded on the faith that the real facts were by this time for- gotten . For ...
... feeling of uneasiness remained on the other side . The story got into the Caledonian Mercury , at the time , so that the above misrepresentation must have pro- ceeded on the faith that the real facts were by this time for- gotten . For ...
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... feeling " will come out to the fraction of an inch . The remark is as " old as it is said to be true , that no real hero is a hero to his " valet de chambre . Let all those whom it may concern now remember , that no man can be a ...
... feeling " will come out to the fraction of an inch . The remark is as " old as it is said to be true , that no real hero is a hero to his " valet de chambre . Let all those whom it may concern now remember , that no man can be a ...
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... feeling and estimating the carcasses of sheep ; from which they have proceeded , still more outrageously , to actual mea- surement , and have " gauged all the prominent craniums in Germany , and ascertained the solid contents of every ...
... feeling and estimating the carcasses of sheep ; from which they have proceeded , still more outrageously , to actual mea- surement , and have " gauged all the prominent craniums in Germany , and ascertained the solid contents of every ...
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... feeling over the other faculties of the mind . Destruc- tiveness , however , when directed by the higher sentiments , serves a valuable purpose in the mental economy . The form in which it manifests itself when opposed by obstacles from ...
... feeling over the other faculties of the mind . Destruc- tiveness , however , when directed by the higher sentiments , serves a valuable purpose in the mental economy . The form in which it manifests itself when opposed by obstacles from ...
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... feeling over the other faculties of the mind . Destruc tiveness , however , when directed by the higher sentiments , serves a valuable purpose in the mental economy . The form in which it manifests itself when opposed by obstacles from ...
... feeling over the other faculties of the mind . Destruc tiveness , however , when directed by the higher sentiments , serves a valuable purpose in the mental economy . The form in which it manifests itself when opposed by obstacles from ...
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Page 110 - But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams, That shake us nightly : better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
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Page 236 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
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