The Listener, Volume 1James Nisbet, 1830 - Education |
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... never mix it with the images of things base , vicious , and disgraceful . No heathen savage ever pictured to himself a future heaven , but he placed music among the first of its delights ; and in those bright prospects of eternal bliss ...
... never mix it with the images of things base , vicious , and disgraceful . No heathen savage ever pictured to himself a future heaven , but he placed music among the first of its delights ; and in those bright prospects of eternal bliss ...
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... never return'd . And I thought how the years of a man pass away , Three score and ten -- and then where are they ? H. NEELE . " THREE - SCORE years and ten , " thought I to my- self , as I walked , one rainy morning , as a sailor walks ...
... never return'd . And I thought how the years of a man pass away , Three score and ten -- and then where are they ? H. NEELE . " THREE - SCORE years and ten , " thought I to my- self , as I walked , one rainy morning , as a sailor walks ...
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... never - resting time - piece , " said I to myself , " for no one heeds thy tale . What is it to us that each one of thy tickings cuts a link from our brief chain of life ? -Time was the gift of * Heaven , but man has no use for it . " I ...
... never - resting time - piece , " said I to myself , " for no one heeds thy tale . What is it to us that each one of thy tickings cuts a link from our brief chain of life ? -Time was the gift of * Heaven , but man has no use for it . " I ...
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... never failed to se- cure belief ; whereas what was simply true and certain was warmly contested . Added to all this were the schemes of deception and petty artifices that I do not judge it honourable to disclose . This then , I thought ...
... never failed to se- cure belief ; whereas what was simply true and certain was warmly contested . Added to all this were the schemes of deception and petty artifices that I do not judge it honourable to disclose . This then , I thought ...
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... never failed to push in the I and the me at every sentence , either by the way of comparison , or simile , or illustration -and another was so , if not envious , at least cen- sorious , that she replied with a but to every , the least ...
... never failed to push in the I and the me at every sentence , either by the way of comparison , or simile , or illustration -and another was so , if not envious , at least cen- sorious , that she replied with a but to every , the least ...
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