The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 1G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Anthologies |
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... dead . Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person , but that he was born upon one day , and died upon another ; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind . I ...
... dead . Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person , but that he was born upon one day , and died upon another ; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind . I ...
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... dead person to be acquainted with them , he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him . There are others so excessively modest , that they deliver the character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew , and ...
... dead person to be acquainted with them , he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him . There are others so excessively modest , that they deliver the character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew , and ...
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... ( dead weight ) , so called because it contained no service- able materials for the useful arts , and had to be removed before the valuable beds of coal lying beneath it , and making the base of the series , could be reached . But while ...
... ( dead weight ) , so called because it contained no service- able materials for the useful arts , and had to be removed before the valuable beds of coal lying beneath it , and making the base of the series , could be reached . But while ...
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... the public libraries they are con- stantly " worn out . " THOREAU'S FLUTE WE , sighing , said , " Our Pan is dead ; His pipe hangs mute beside the river ; - Around it wistful sunbeams quiver , But Music's airy voice 48 ALCOTT.
... the public libraries they are con- stantly " worn out . " THOREAU'S FLUTE WE , sighing , said , " Our Pan is dead ; His pipe hangs mute beside the river ; - Around it wistful sunbeams quiver , But Music's airy voice 48 ALCOTT.
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... LEGEND A CERTAIN Pasha , dead these thousand years , Once from his harem fled in sudden tears , And had this sentence on the city's gate Deeply engraven , Only God is great . So those four words above the city's noise Hung like ALDRICH 55.
... LEGEND A CERTAIN Pasha , dead these thousand years , Once from his harem fled in sudden tears , And had this sentence on the city's gate Deeply engraven , Only God is great . So those four words above the city's noise Hung like ALDRICH 55.
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