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Page 11
There are others so excessively modest , that they deliver the character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew , and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth . In the poetical quarter I found there were poets who had ...
There are others so excessively modest , that they deliver the character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew , and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth . In the poetical quarter I found there were poets who had ...
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By this means I can improve myself with those objects which others consider with terror . When I look upon the tombs of the great , every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful , every inordinate desire ...
By this means I can improve myself with those objects which others consider with terror . When I look upon the tombs of the great , every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful , every inordinate desire ...
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Nay , on his deathbed , he describes him as being pleased , that while his soul returned to him who made it , his body should incorporate with the great mother of all things , and by that means become beneficial to mankind .
Nay , on his deathbed , he describes him as being pleased , that while his soul returned to him who made it , his body should incorporate with the great mother of all things , and by that means become beneficial to mankind .
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... may sometimes bring his wit in question , is , perhaps , because he is apt to be moved with compassion for those misfortunes or infirmities which another would turn into ridicule , and by that means gain the reputation of a wit .
... may sometimes bring his wit in question , is , perhaps , because he is apt to be moved with compassion for those misfortunes or infirmities which another would turn into ridicule , and by that means gain the reputation of a wit .
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Upon looking up , ' What mean , ' said I , ' those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge , and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures , harpies , ravens , cormorants , and among many other ...
Upon looking up , ' What mean , ' said I , ' those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge , and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures , harpies , ravens , cormorants , and among many other ...
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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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