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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 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 Thus the Puritan was made up of two differ- ent men , the one all self - abasement , penitence ...
... 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 Thus the Puritan was made up of two differ- ent men , the one all self - abasement , penitence ...
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... head ; they quarrelled for the honour of pos sessing his remains ; they maintained profes- sors to expound his writings . But what they admired was not that mighty imagination which called a new world into existence , and made all its ...
... head ; they quarrelled for the honour of pos sessing his remains ; they maintained profes- sors to expound his writings . But what they admired was not that mighty imagination which called a new world into existence , and made all its ...
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... head of narrators . He reminds us of a delightful child . There is a grace beyond the reach of affectation in his awkwardness , a malice in his innocence , an intelligence in his nonsense , an insinuating eloquence in his lisp .. We ...
... head of narrators . He reminds us of a delightful child . There is a grace beyond the reach of affectation in his awkwardness , a malice in his innocence , an intelligence in his nonsense , an insinuating eloquence in his lisp .. We ...
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