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... head goes around twenty different bodies ; so that the same face looks out upon us succes- sively , from the uniform of a hussar , the furs of a judge , and the rags of a beggar . In all the characters , patriots and tyrants , haters ...
... head goes around twenty different bodies ; so that the same face looks out upon us succes- sively , from the uniform of a hussar , the furs of a judge , and the rags of a beggar . In all the characters , patriots and tyrants , haters ...
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... head any peculiar interest in his character , for we of affairs , he did not assume unlimited power . think that his sentence describes him with He gave the country a constitution far more perfect justice as a “ tyrant , a traitor , a ...
... head any peculiar interest in his character , for we of affairs , he did not assume unlimited power . think that his sentence describes him with He gave the country a constitution far more perfect justice as a “ tyrant , a traitor , a ...
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... head to the nations . ment next to impossible . The choice lay , not between Cromwell and liberty , but between ... heads or on broiled rumps , and cut down oak branches or stuck them up as circumstances altered , with- out the slightest ...
... head to the nations . ment next to impossible . The choice lay , not between Cromwell and liberty , but between ... heads or on broiled rumps , and cut down oak branches or stuck them up as circumstances altered , with- out the slightest ...
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... head and the Fool's head , and fix our choice on the plain leaden chest which conceals the treasure . The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and external ...
... head and the Fool's head , and fix our choice on the plain leaden chest which conceals the treasure . The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and external ...
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... head . Through the theatre . the grin and frown , the original features are still perceptible . It is in the tragicomedies that these absurdi- ties strike us most . The two races of men , or rather the angels and the baboons , are there ...
... head . Through the theatre . the grin and frown , the original features are still perceptible . It is in the tragicomedies that these absurdi- ties strike us most . The two races of men , or rather the angels and the baboons , are there ...
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