Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... least no reason to complain of the habitation provided for us . We might have been freezing under the pole , or scorched beneath the torrid zone : this forms at least one ground of gratitude . Who can place limits to the gratifications ...
... least no reason to complain of the habitation provided for us . We might have been freezing under the pole , or scorched beneath the torrid zone : this forms at least one ground of gratitude . Who can place limits to the gratifications ...
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... least vitiate , our susceptibility to natural and simple pleasures . Of the laws which regulate the mysterious union of mind and matter we know little or nothing : experience teaches us , however , that the health of the sentient ...
... least vitiate , our susceptibility to natural and simple pleasures . Of the laws which regulate the mysterious union of mind and matter we know little or nothing : experience teaches us , however , that the health of the sentient ...
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... least intelligible , he strives to elicit our risibility , and if he succeed by tickling our sides instead of our fancies , he has still added a modi- cum to the general sum of pleasant sensations . what is the motive of the Sad ...
... least intelligible , he strives to elicit our risibility , and if he succeed by tickling our sides instead of our fancies , he has still added a modi- cum to the general sum of pleasant sensations . what is the motive of the Sad ...
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... and de- monstration . Motive is every thing . He who pro- mulgates Truth with a malicious intention , is more culpable than the man who infringes it with a bene- volent one . So far , at least , we PLEASANT ILLUSIONS . 39.
... and de- monstration . Motive is every thing . He who pro- mulgates Truth with a malicious intention , is more culpable than the man who infringes it with a bene- volent one . So far , at least , we PLEASANT ILLUSIONS . 39.
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... least , we may hold with the anomalous dictum of the jurists , that the greater the truth , the greater the libel . " O qu'il est aimé qui rend amiable ! " says Gentil Bernard : and what is this amiability but a constant deviation from ...
... least , we may hold with the anomalous dictum of the jurists , that the greater the truth , the greater the libel . " O qu'il est aimé qui rend amiable ! " says Gentil Bernard : and what is this amiability but a constant deviation from ...
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