A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto UncollectedIncludes papers on Heathen mythology, Genii of antiquity, Genii and fairies of the East, etc. |
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... Reason ; Vicissitudes of a Lecture ; The For- tunes of Genius ; Poets ' Houses ; A Journey by Coach ; Inexhaustibility of the Subject of Christmas . " The Seer ' is a capital companion in the traveller's pocket , and by the bachelor's ...
... Reason ; Vicissitudes of a Lecture ; The For- tunes of Genius ; Poets ' Houses ; A Journey by Coach ; Inexhaustibility of the Subject of Christmas . " The Seer ' is a capital companion in the traveller's pocket , and by the bachelor's ...
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... reason , among many others , I indulge myself in keeping a good . fire from morning till night . I have also a reflective turn for an easy chair , and a very thinking attachment to com- fort in general . But of this as I proceed ...
... reason , among many others , I indulge myself in keeping a good . fire from morning till night . I have also a reflective turn for an easy chair , and a very thinking attachment to com- fort in general . But of this as I proceed ...
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... reason is that he pierces deeper into the nature of the human being beside him , can make his very deficiencies subservient to his own speculations , and , above all , knows that there is something worth all the knowledge upon earth ...
... reason is that he pierces deeper into the nature of the human being beside him , can make his very deficiencies subservient to his own speculations , and , above all , knows that there is something worth all the knowledge upon earth ...
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... reason is , " replied the devil , " that you have not hitherto been quite bad enough : at length you have become intolerable , and there is no alternative between a revolt of your subjects , and their belief in your being a god . Once ...
... reason is , " replied the devil , " that you have not hitherto been quite bad enough : at length you have become intolerable , and there is no alternative between a revolt of your subjects , and their belief in your being a god . Once ...
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... reasons for it , and was a privileged person . He could do no wrong . But if humanity went counter to a god , the offender and all his generation were to suffer for it . A lady who had resisted the violence of his virtue , was not to be ...
... reasons for it , and was a privileged person . He could do no wrong . But if humanity went counter to a god , the offender and all his generation were to suffer for it . A lady who had resisted the violence of his virtue , was not to be ...
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