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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Works of Sir Thomas Browne - Page 219
1831
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The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine, Volume 1

1820 - 394 pages
...considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names, as some have done in...face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 1

Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names, as some have done in...face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short...
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in...face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in...face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short...
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The London Christian instructor, or, Congregational magazine, Volume 6

1823 - 736 pages
...considerations, secmes a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated pcece of folly. We cannot hope to live to long in our names, as some have done in their persons, one face of Jantu holds no proportion to the other. 'Tis to late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names, as some have done in...face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. It is too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short...
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The Congregational Magazine, Volume 6

Congregationalism - 1823 - 684 pages
...considerations, seemes a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated pcece of folly. We cannot hope to live co long in our names, as some have done in their persons, one face of Janui holds no proportion to the other. 'Tis to late to he ambitious. The great mutations of the world...
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Literary gems [ed. by J.S.].

Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...Methuselah, before tkat famous prince was extant. .:'.:.. .-.:..<*'.: I ated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names, as some have done in...face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. It is too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3

Unitarianism - 1826 - 548 pages
...considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names, as some have done in...their persons. One face of Janus holds no proportion to the other. It is too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 1

Books - 1820 - 398 pages
...considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names, as some have done in...face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short...
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