 ... by bringing before you some of the circumstances of this plague of hunger. Of all the calamities which beset and waylay the life of man, this comes the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself to be nothing more...  Praelectiones academicae Oxonii habitae - Page 226by Edward Copleston - 1828 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 458 pages
...man, this comes the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself to be nothing more than he is : but I find myself unable...it with decorum; these details are of a species of horrour so nauseous and disgusting ; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers ; they... | |
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 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself to be nothing more than he is : but J find myself unable to manage it with decorum; these details are of a species of horrour so nauseous and disgusting ; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers ; they... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
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 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
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 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1815 - 746 pages
...nothing more than he is : but I find myself unable ta manage it with decorum ; these details areof a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting ; they...degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers; they are eo humiliating to human nature itself, that, on better thoughts, I find it more advisable to throw... | |
 | 1821 - 522 pages
...man, Ifcrs comes the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself to be nothing more than he is ; but I find myself unable...better thoughts, I find it more advisable to throw » pall over this hideous object, and to leave it to your general conceptions.' Specimens from Curran... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1821 - 536 pages
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 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1821 - 542 pages
...heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself to be nothing more than he is ; but 1 find myself unable to manage it with decorum : these...nature itself, that on better thoughts, I find it mure adviseable to throw a pall over this hideous object, and to leave it to your general conception.'... | |
 | 1821 - 510 pages
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