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... could our hands reach as far as our thoughts or wishes , we might then busy ourselves to advantage with the Hottentots , or hold intimate converse with the inhabitants of the Moon ; but being as we are , our feelings evaporate in so ...
... could our hands reach as far as our thoughts or wishes , we might then busy ourselves to advantage with the Hottentots , or hold intimate converse with the inhabitants of the Moon ; but being as we are , our feelings evaporate in so ...
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Perhaps there is a little attention to effect in this , and he wishes to appear a foil to himself . His best moments are with an intimate acquaintance or two , when he gossips in a fine vein about old authors , Clarendon's History of ...
Perhaps there is a little attention to effect in this , and he wishes to appear a foil to himself . His best moments are with an intimate acquaintance or two , when he gossips in a fine vein about old authors , Clarendon's History of ...
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Schiller ! that hour I would have wish'd to die , If through the shudd'ring midnight I had sent From the dark dungeon of the tower time - rent , That fearful voice , a famish'd father's cryThat in no after - moment aught less vast Might ...
Schiller ! that hour I would have wish'd to die , If through the shudd'ring midnight I had sent From the dark dungeon of the tower time - rent , That fearful voice , a famish'd father's cryThat in no after - moment aught less vast Might ...
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To some pompous pretenders he might seem to narrate fabellas aniles ( old wives ' fables ) —but not to those who study human nature , and wish to know the materials of which it is composed . Mr. Tooke's faculties might appear to have ...
To some pompous pretenders he might seem to narrate fabellas aniles ( old wives ' fables ) —but not to those who study human nature , and wish to know the materials of which it is composed . Mr. Tooke's faculties might appear to have ...
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It is not the value of the observation itself he is solicitous about ; but he wishes to shine by contrast - even nature only serves as a foil to set off his style . He therefore takes the thoughts of others ( whether contemporaries or ...
It is not the value of the observation itself he is solicitous about ; but he wishes to shine by contrast - even nature only serves as a foil to set off his style . He therefore takes the thoughts of others ( whether contemporaries or ...
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