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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... Human capacity is limited . No man , however long- lived 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 long- lived 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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... human nature that makes kindred of us all . This he has tried to find , as the prospector seeks the vein of gold . A ... humanity . We know that life will ultimately end upon our planet ; but it is almost inconceivable that certain books ...
... human nature that makes kindred of us all . This he has tried to find , as the prospector seeks the vein of gold . A ... humanity . We know that life will ultimately end upon our planet ; but it is almost inconceivable that certain books ...
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... human body . Upon this I began to consider with myself , what innumerable multitudes of people lay confused together under the pavement of that ancient cathe- dral ; how men and women , friends and enemies , priests and soldiers , monks ...
... human body . Upon this I began to consider with myself , what innumerable multitudes of people lay confused together under the pavement of that ancient cathe- dral ; how men and women , friends and enemies , priests and soldiers , monks ...
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... human life might be extinguished , would men alleviate the general curse they lie under , by mutual offices of compassion , benevolence , and humanity . There is nothing therefore which we ought more to encourage in ourselves and others ...
... human life might be extinguished , would men alleviate the general curse they lie under , by mutual offices of compassion , benevolence , and humanity . There is nothing therefore which we ought more to encourage in ourselves and others ...
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... humanity , such an ex- uberant love to mankind , could not have entered into the imagi- nation of a writer , who had ... human nature , there is none so odious , nor indeed so exquisitely ridiculous , as that of a rigid severe temper in ...
... humanity , such an ex- uberant love to mankind , could not have entered into the imagi- nation of a writer , who had ... human nature , there is none so odious , nor indeed so exquisitely ridiculous , as that of a rigid severe temper in ...
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