Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... death . Nature's great business is reproduction ; and as she works always upon the same materials , spirit and matter , life and extinction , one organisation and an- other , are perpetually interchanging substances and natures without ...
... death . Nature's great business is reproduction ; and as she works always upon the same materials , spirit and matter , life and extinction , one organisation and an- other , are perpetually interchanging substances and natures without ...
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... death , and who , from the crown upon his head which shook out a dazzling splendour , appeared to have been their king . She whom I conjectured to be their queen , advancing before the others , knelt down beside the body , and placing ...
... death , and who , from the crown upon his head which shook out a dazzling splendour , appeared to have been their king . She whom I conjectured to be their queen , advancing before the others , knelt down beside the body , and placing ...
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... death - watch ring , Humming birds his dirge shall sing , And for banners he shall have Tulips waving o'er his grave . Thus shall he enshrined be , Royally - right royally . " Gazing upwards with a look of appealing grief , the ...
... death - watch ring , Humming birds his dirge shall sing , And for banners he shall have Tulips waving o'er his grave . Thus shall he enshrined be , Royally - right royally . " Gazing upwards with a look of appealing grief , the ...
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... death the sole remedy . There is a fanaticism of virtue as well as of religion , and the extremes of both are equally to be avoided . The Quakers have no more got rid of falsehood and bad grammar by the affectations of their phraseology ...
... death the sole remedy . There is a fanaticism of virtue as well as of religion , and the extremes of both are equally to be avoided . The Quakers have no more got rid of falsehood and bad grammar by the affectations of their phraseology ...
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... death : so it is still , with death to the soul , with extinction to the heart . Taking the scriptural fact either literally or allegorically , let us profit by its lesson . THE CULPRIT AND THE JUDGE . THE realm of France 42 GAIETIES ...
... death : so it is still , with death to the soul , with extinction to the heart . Taking the scriptural fact either literally or allegorically , let us profit by its lesson . THE CULPRIT AND THE JUDGE . THE realm of France 42 GAIETIES ...
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