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... truth . Like other food , it may be so mixed and manipulated as to nauseate , or so seasoned as to give false appetite , stimulate morbid sensibility , and excite spasmodic action . A facetious writer who , in a rapid view of centuries ...
... truth . Like other food , it may be so mixed and manipulated as to nauseate , or so seasoned as to give false appetite , stimulate morbid sensibility , and excite spasmodic action . A facetious writer who , in a rapid view of centuries ...
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... truth , telling what he was , gives a lesson awfully instructive . It teaches the frailty of our nature , and the danger of trusting too much power even to the purest hands . Another sublime lesson follows , in the succeeding reign ...
... truth , telling what he was , gives a lesson awfully instructive . It teaches the frailty of our nature , and the danger of trusting too much power even to the purest hands . Another sublime lesson follows , in the succeeding reign ...
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... truth in mellifluent verse , or to imitate , in our native speech , the melody of ancient song . Other paths remain to be trodden , other fields to be cultivated , other regions to be explored . The fertile earth is not yet wholly ...
... truth in mellifluent verse , or to imitate , in our native speech , the melody of ancient song . Other paths remain to be trodden , other fields to be cultivated , other regions to be explored . The fertile earth is not yet wholly ...
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... truth , were moved by a holy ambition to become the ministers of the most High , in bestowing upon it the blessings of religion , morals , letters , and liberty . When we look back upon the earlier European dis- coveries and conquests ...
... truth , were moved by a holy ambition to become the ministers of the most High , in bestowing upon it the blessings of religion , morals , letters , and liberty . When we look back upon the earlier European dis- coveries and conquests ...
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... truth of which modern Europe had seen no example . It is a remarkable fact , and one which bears honourable testimony to the vigour and enlarge- ment of his mind , that a Spanish ecclesiastic , of the fif- teenth century , should have ...
... truth of which modern Europe had seen no example . It is a remarkable fact , and one which bears honourable testimony to the vigour and enlarge- ment of his mind , that a Spanish ecclesiastic , of the fif- teenth century , should have ...
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