World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land . In their simplicity of life is found the simpleness of virtue - the integrity and courage of freedom . These true genuine souls THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
... its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land . In their simplicity of life is found the simpleness of virtue - the integrity and courage of freedom . These true genuine souls THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
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... souls of the earth are invincible ; and they surround and hem in the mercantile bodies ; even if these bodies , which ... soul of man , might , methinks , receive a very happy turn ; and , if it were rightly directed , contrib- ute as ...
... souls of the earth are invincible ; and they surround and hem in the mercantile bodies ; even if these bodies , which ... soul of man , might , methinks , receive a very happy turn ; and , if it were rightly directed , contrib- ute as ...
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... soul . - Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury . ANGER . He that would be angry and sin not , must not be angry with anything but sin . - Secker . ANGER . - Anger is an affected madness compounded of pride and folly , and an intention to do ...
... soul . - Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury . ANGER . He that would be angry and sin not , must not be angry with anything but sin . - Secker . ANGER . - Anger is an affected madness compounded of pride and folly , and an intention to do ...
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... soul through this gloomy labyrinth of time , the telescope sent from heaven to reveal to the eye of man the amazing glories of the far distant world . BIBLE . The Bible is a window in this prison of hope , through which we look into ...
... soul through this gloomy labyrinth of time , the telescope sent from heaven to reveal to the eye of man the amazing glories of the far distant world . BIBLE . The Bible is a window in this prison of hope , through which we look into ...
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... soul was , whose progeny they are ; nay , they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them . I know they are as lively , and as vigorous- ly productive , as those fabulous dragons ...
... soul was , whose progeny they are ; nay , they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them . I know they are as lively , and as vigorous- ly productive , as those fabulous dragons ...
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