The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 179William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1971 |
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... Nature herself marked me for a nun ? To be accurate , I was not really remarkable for brains , and when people said that I had a clever face what they really meant was that with a face like mine , bearing Nature's law of compensation in ...
... Nature herself marked me for a nun ? To be accurate , I was not really remarkable for brains , and when people said that I had a clever face what they really meant was that with a face like mine , bearing Nature's law of compensation in ...
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... nature are a typical Taoist theme . Chuang Chou retells the Chinese fable of a prince who killed a stray sea bird by ... natural objects , only succeeds in destroying them . She tries to marry a viper and a butterfly . She snatches a ...
... nature are a typical Taoist theme . Chuang Chou retells the Chinese fable of a prince who killed a stray sea bird by ... natural objects , only succeeds in destroying them . She tries to marry a viper and a butterfly . She snatches a ...
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... nature of man , and in particular for that part of his nature which his ordinary utterances , and even his confessions , do not disclose . Since these im- pulses lie so deep , the historian should begin to look for them in the earliest ...
... nature of man , and in particular for that part of his nature which his ordinary utterances , and even his confessions , do not disclose . Since these im- pulses lie so deep , the historian should begin to look for them in the earliest ...
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