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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 to joke about ...
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 to joke about ...
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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 : ' Pensez
à la ...
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 : ' Pensez
à la ...
Page 279
The Italian ' tarot still carries on its trump card the figures of death and judgment
together with emperor , Pope , and all social ranks joined together . That it should
survive on a playing card — the use of which has sent so many men to their ruin ...
The Italian ' tarot still carries on its trump card the figures of death and judgment
together with emperor , Pope , and all social ranks joined together . That it should
survive on a playing card — the use of which has sent so many men to their ruin ...
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Contents
Imperialism and Colonialism | 1 |
Is Philosophy Obsolete? | 12 |
What we owe Lord Halifax | 22 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1958 |
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