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Death , as Sidney Smith pointed out , must be distinguished from dying , with which it is very often confused , and death , unlike , as a rule , dying , often lends itself to the generation of humour . It is axiomatic that people tend ...
Death , as Sidney Smith pointed out , must be distinguished from dying , with which it is very often confused , and death , unlike , as a rule , dying , often lends itself to the generation of humour . It is axiomatic that people tend ...
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More loosely still , of course , and this will help us to understand why people are interested in and respond to the macabre , the word can describe a manifestation of death outside any form of art .
More loosely still , of course , and this will help us to understand why people are interested in and respond to the macabre , the word can describe a manifestation of death outside any form of art .
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death at this time is given when we consider the thirteenth - century religious order of St Paul called ' Les Frères de la Mort ' because they had a death's head embroidered on their scapulars . When they met one another they said ...
death at this time is given when we consider the thirteenth - century religious order of St Paul called ' Les Frères de la Mort ' because they had a death's head embroidered on their scapulars . When they met one another they said ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 296 |
| Editors | 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, 1958 |
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