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Page 54
... live ! they greatly live a life on earth Unkindled , unconceived ; and from an eye Of tenderness let heav'nly pity fall On me , more justly number'd with the dead . This is the desert , this the solitude : How populous , how vital , is ...
... live ! they greatly live a life on earth Unkindled , unconceived ; and from an eye Of tenderness let heav'nly pity fall On me , more justly number'd with the dead . This is the desert , this the solitude : How populous , how vital , is ...
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... live in China , and among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery , I should go mad . The causes of my horror lie deep ; and some of them must be common to others . South- ern Asia , in general , is the seat of awful images and ...
... live in China , and among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery , I should go mad . The causes of my horror lie deep ; and some of them must be common to others . South- ern Asia , in general , is the seat of awful images and ...
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... live , and long life be but a prolongation of death , our life is a sad composition ; we live with death , and die not in a moment . How many pulses made up the life of Methuselah were work for Archimedes : common counters sum up the ...
... live , and long life be but a prolongation of death , our life is a sad composition ; we live with death , and die not in a moment . How many pulses made up the life of Methuselah were work for Archimedes : common counters sum up the ...
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DAY SUBJECT 119 Of Improving by good Examples | 5 |
Primitive Christians | 9 |
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