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... Head and Heart Accidents not all Evil - Fate and Jupiter - Isaac Barrow - None without Trials PAGE 103 · CHAPTER IX . ON CONFIDENCES AND SECRETS . Secrets illusive - Midas has Ears ! - Public Confessors - Plutarch's Morals - The ...
... Head and Heart Accidents not all Evil - Fate and Jupiter - Isaac Barrow - None without Trials PAGE 103 · CHAPTER IX . ON CONFIDENCES AND SECRETS . Secrets illusive - Midas has Ears ! - Public Confessors - Plutarch's Morals - The ...
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... head and tail under a tree to flap away the flies . This passion of the mind takes some very curious forms , and when indulged in , leads to madness , certainly often . to guilt . Can calm and quiet people , who know how empty fame is ...
... head and tail under a tree to flap away the flies . This passion of the mind takes some very curious forms , and when indulged in , leads to madness , certainly often . to guilt . Can calm and quiet people , who know how empty fame is ...
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... heads , whether there be a torn skull - cap or a king's diadem without . Let no one ima- gine that Paul's young years were unhappy ; still less that he looks back on them in a lachrymose , sentimental 14 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
... heads , whether there be a torn skull - cap or a king's diadem without . Let no one ima- gine that Paul's young years were unhappy ; still less that he looks back on them in a lachrymose , sentimental 14 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
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... head in battle , lay down in a ship , which , with its sails set , drifted out into the ocean , charged with fire , too , in the hold , so that the king might blaze in his tomb , and be delivered to the sky and ocean . Others cut them ...
... head in battle , lay down in a ship , which , with its sails set , drifted out into the ocean , charged with fire , too , in the hold , so that the king might blaze in his tomb , and be delivered to the sky and ocean . Others cut them ...
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... heads not only above water , but have placed themselves foremost in the world . Yet , what a small people it is , multiplying fast truly , sending out colonists , and fixing on a new Scotland , and settling themselves readily to work ...
... heads not only above water , but have placed themselves foremost in the world . Yet , what a small people it is , multiplying fast truly , sending out colonists , and fixing on a new Scotland , and settling themselves readily to work ...
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Page 108 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 62 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 178 - O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 181 - But that vast portion, lastly, of the working class which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven^ born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes, — to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.
Page 8 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.