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We have just heard that one poor man has gone mad on the subject of the desecration of graves ; and that he goes about addressing what audiences he can collect , mounted on a rostrum made of a second - hand coffin , which he snatched ...
We have just heard that one poor man has gone mad on the subject of the desecration of graves ; and that he goes about addressing what audiences he can collect , mounted on a rostrum made of a second - hand coffin , which he snatched ...
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And the funeral Dole , * though it un- doubtedly led at times to great excesses , was one of the occasions which helped to equalize wealth , and make the poor partakers of our substance and hospitality . The Fathers , indeed , are full ...
And the funeral Dole , * though it un- doubtedly led at times to great excesses , was one of the occasions which helped to equalize wealth , and make the poor partakers of our substance and hospitality . The Fathers , indeed , are full ...
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The carpenter must be the undertaker , and six poor men to carry us in place of the four - horsed hearse . If we thus took the ordering of our own funerals upon ourselves , our friends would be relieved , and the world satisfied ...
The carpenter must be the undertaker , and six poor men to carry us in place of the four - horsed hearse . If we thus took the ordering of our own funerals upon ourselves , our friends would be relieved , and the world satisfied ...
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A Description of the Canals and Railroads of | 5 |
IntimeMouvement LittérairePortraits 17891836 | 375 |
426 note omit Madame de St Aignan who was certainly saved | 426 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 73 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1843 |
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