Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... animal listlessness . An Englishman is obliged to draw upon his mind for the gratifications denied to his body , and apply to his fire - side for the warmth withheld from him by the sun : hence the two distinguishing traits of his ...
... animal listlessness . An Englishman is obliged to draw upon his mind for the gratifications denied to his body , and apply to his fire - side for the warmth withheld from him by the sun : hence the two distinguishing traits of his ...
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... as * That species of eagle termed the ossifrage or ospray is thus called from its breaking the bones of animals in order to feed upon them . if re - animation was exuding from every pore of 14 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . Human Ossifrages.
... as * That species of eagle termed the ossifrage or ospray is thus called from its breaking the bones of animals in order to feed upon them . if re - animation was exuding from every pore of 14 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . Human Ossifrages.
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... animal , whom he has called into existence . Spring is undoubtedly the most exhilarating of all seasons , not only from its moral associations and pro- mises of a flowery future , but from certain involuntary impulses arising from a ...
... animal , whom he has called into existence . Spring is undoubtedly the most exhilarating of all seasons , not only from its moral associations and pro- mises of a flowery future , but from certain involuntary impulses arising from a ...
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... animal were not by far the most unreasonable of beings , we should never have heard so many lugubrious complaints about the wretched lot and miserable destiny of man . Moralists and divines , with the intention of impressing the ...
... animal were not by far the most unreasonable of beings , we should never have heard so many lugubrious complaints about the wretched lot and miserable destiny of man . Moralists and divines , with the intention of impressing the ...
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... animal in any the elements , or one of the corners of the world , how- ever remote , which has not been rendered subservient to the indulgences of our palate ; while earth spreads before us a never - ending banquet of inanimate pro ...
... animal in any the elements , or one of the corners of the world , how- ever remote , which has not been rendered subservient to the indulgences of our palate ; while earth spreads before us a never - ending banquet of inanimate pro ...
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