The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 3G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... believe in my Strength , when there was as yet no mirror to see it in ? Ever did this agitating , yet , as I now perceive , quite frivolous question , remain to me insoluble : Hast thou a certain Faculty , a certain Worth , such even as ...
... believe in my Strength , when there was as yet no mirror to see it in ? Ever did this agitating , yet , as I now perceive , quite frivolous question , remain to me insoluble : Hast thou a certain Faculty , a certain Worth , such even as ...
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... believe in a Devil . To me the Universe was all void of Life , of Pur- pose , of Volition , even of Hostility : it was one huge , dead , im- measurable Steam - engine , rolling on , in its dead indifference , to grind me limb from limb ...
... believe in a Devil . To me the Universe was all void of Life , of Pur- pose , of Volition , even of Hostility : it was one huge , dead , im- measurable Steam - engine , rolling on , in its dead indifference , to grind me limb from limb ...
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... believe you no more . And ye too , haggard specters of Fear , I care not for you ; ye too are all shadows and a lie . Let me rest here : for I am way - weary and life - weary ; I will rest here , were it but to die : to die or to live ...
... believe you no more . And ye too , haggard specters of Fear , I care not for you ; ye too are all shadows and a lie . Let me rest here : for I am way - weary and life - weary ; I will rest here , were it but to die : to die or to live ...
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... believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever . Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain , this which so many creatures of the Almighty have lived by and died by ? I , for my part ...
... believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever . Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain , this which so many creatures of the Almighty have lived by and died by ? I , for my part ...
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... wonder and veneration . Thou complainest not , my illustrious friend ; and yet I believe the heart of thee is full of sorrow , of unspoken sadness , seriousness , - profound mel- - ancholy ( as some have said ) the basis 60 CARLYLE.
... wonder and veneration . Thou complainest not , my illustrious friend ; and yet I believe the heart of thee is full of sorrow , of unspoken sadness , seriousness , - profound mel- - ancholy ( as some have said ) the basis 60 CARLYLE.
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