Littell's Living Age, Volume 113Living Age Company Incorporated, 1872 |
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Page 6
... better or not . This fiction is wide as the world , and old as the ancient ages ; nei- ther is there any possibility , so far as we are aware , of shaking its hold upon men : but , notwithstanding , it is false and evil ; and to its ...
... better or not . This fiction is wide as the world , and old as the ancient ages ; nei- ther is there any possibility , so far as we are aware , of shaking its hold upon men : but , notwithstanding , it is false and evil ; and to its ...
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... better purity , without losing his right to be con- society , his admission to a higher class , his sidered a gentleman . He united the vices contact with men of education and family , of the rough - riding squire to those of the did ...
... better purity , without losing his right to be con- society , his admission to a higher class , his sidered a gentleman . He united the vices contact with men of education and family , of the rough - riding squire to those of the did ...
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... better and purer than , at least , the next step of the social scale - which made the process yet more fatal to him than it might have been ; and still we do not see how it could have been helped . Should another Burns arise now , we do ...
... better and purer than , at least , the next step of the social scale - which made the process yet more fatal to him than it might have been ; and still we do not see how it could have been helped . Should another Burns arise now , we do ...
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... better than another , and that one monotonous line of limitation is to be found in all . Had he been transported out of himself , dazzled by his new associa- tions , it would have been more natural , and , perhaps , notwithstanding all ...
... better than another , and that one monotonous line of limitation is to be found in all . Had he been transported out of himself , dazzled by his new associa- tions , it would have been more natural , and , perhaps , notwithstanding all ...
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... better for him had he been opinions , extraordinary to without that painful enlightenment , had he been able to ... better advantage , and even almost him for we find him talking vaguely and always better understood , by the wo- finely ...
... better for him had he been opinions , extraordinary to without that painful enlightenment , had he been able to ... better advantage , and even almost him for we find him talking vaguely and always better understood , by the wo- finely ...
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