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Human capacity is limited . No man , however longlived and industrious , can absorb more than a fraction of the literary output of the race ; and now that this accumulated mass , --- already so immense , — receives on the average every ...
Human capacity is limited . No man , however longlived and industrious , can absorb more than a fraction of the literary output of the race ; and now that this accumulated mass , --- already so immense , — receives on the average every ...
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Such literature is the priceless heritage of humanity . We know that life will ultimately end upon our planet ; but it is almost inconceivable that certain books , or parts of books , with all their precious consolations of religion ...
Such literature is the priceless heritage of humanity . We know that life will ultimately end upon our planet ; but it is almost inconceivable that certain books , or parts of books , with all their precious consolations of religion ...
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... digging of a grave ; and saw in every shovel - ful of it that was thrown up , the fragment of a bone or skull intermixed with a kind of fresh moldering earth that some time or other had a place in the composition of a human body .
... digging of a grave ; and saw in every shovel - ful of it that was thrown up , the fragment of a bone or skull intermixed with a kind of fresh moldering earth that some time or other had a place in the composition of a human body .
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Ć I ( 1 1 á Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity , and yet , as if nature had ... Half the misery of human life might be extinguished , would men alleviate the general curse they lie under ...
Ć I ( 1 1 á Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity , and yet , as if nature had ... Half the misery of human life might be extinguished , would men alleviate the general curse they lie under ...
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An instance of such an overflowing of humanity , such an exuberant love to mankind , could not have entered into the ... For this reason , among all the monstrous characters in human nature , there is none so odious , nor indeed so ...
An instance of such an overflowing of humanity , such an exuberant love to mankind , could not have entered into the ... For this reason , among all the monstrous characters in human nature , there is none so odious , nor indeed so ...
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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