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36 38 41 42 47 48 DEATH , our best friend DEBTs , credit system injurious .. DESPAIR , causes of ...... DISCRETION , defined .. DUELLING , a cowardly practice 52 54 56 58 EDUCATION , the kind most useful ELOQUENCE , artificial and ...
36 38 41 42 47 48 DEATH , our best friend DEBTs , credit system injurious .. DESPAIR , causes of ...... DISCRETION , defined .. DUELLING , a cowardly practice 52 54 56 58 EDUCATION , the kind most useful ELOQUENCE , artificial and ...
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If all these should fail , he may throw himself into the arms of Mesmerism , triumph over all diseases , and attempt to deceive death , as the man in the fable did the bear , by pretending to be dead , as the only means of saving his ...
If all these should fail , he may throw himself into the arms of Mesmerism , triumph over all diseases , and attempt to deceive death , as the man in the fable did the bear , by pretending to be dead , as the only means of saving his ...
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So ended the onward and upward career of Napoleon - his life , a modern wonder his fate , a fearful warning — his death , a scene of gloom . Power is gained as a means of enjoyment , but oftener than otherwise , is its fell destroyer .
So ended the onward and upward career of Napoleon - his life , a modern wonder his fate , a fearful warning — his death , a scene of gloom . Power is gained as a means of enjoyment , but oftener than otherwise , is its fell destroyer .
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Life , to youth , is a fairy tale just opened ; to old age , a tale read through , ending in death . Be wise in time , that you may be happy in eternity . Happiness , like a snail , is never found from 3 B 2 APOTHEGMS .
Life , to youth , is a fairy tale just opened ; to old age , a tale read through , ending in death . Be wise in time , that you may be happy in eternity . Happiness , like a snail , is never found from 3 B 2 APOTHEGMS .
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Beauty belongs to youth , and dies with it , but the odour of piety survives death , and perfumes the tomb . Never be cast down by trifles . If a spider breaks his thread twenty times in a day , he patiently mends it each time .
Beauty belongs to youth , and dies with it , but the odour of piety survives death , and perfumes the tomb . Never be cast down by trifles . If a spider breaks his thread twenty times in a day , he patiently mends it each time .
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| Title | The Moral Probe: Or One Hundred and Two Common Sense Essays on the Nature of Men and Things: Interspersed with Scraps of Science and History |
| Author | Levi Carroll Judson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | The author, 1848 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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