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... man's wife . AFFECTION - filial - an implanted instinct , exalted by a feeling of gratitude and a sense of duty ... Man has been termed the child of affliction , an affiliation of which the writer does not recognize the truth ; but for ...
... man's wife . AFFECTION - filial - an implanted instinct , exalted by a feeling of gratitude and a sense of duty ... Man has been termed the child of affliction , an affiliation of which the writer does not recognize the truth ; but for ...
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... man's ancestors double at each remove in geo- metrical proportion , so that , after only twenty generations , he has ... man to have derived distinction from his predecessors , if he bequeath disgrace to his 14 THE TIN TRUMPET . of the ...
... man's ancestors double at each remove in geo- metrical proportion , so that , after only twenty generations , he has ... man to have derived distinction from his predecessors , if he bequeath disgrace to his 14 THE TIN TRUMPET . of the ...
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... Man's nature . Of all cants defend me from that cant of Art which substitutes a blind and indiscriminate rev- erence of the painter , provided he be dead , for a judicious admiration of his paintings . Our connoisseurs reverse the old ...
... Man's nature . Of all cants defend me from that cant of Art which substitutes a blind and indiscriminate rev- erence of the painter , provided he be dead , for a judicious admiration of his paintings . Our connoisseurs reverse the old ...
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... man's life is complete till he is dead , an auto - biography is therefore a mis - nomer . As such works , however , generally fall still - born from the press , an author may fairly be said to have lost his life as soon as he is deliv ...
... man's life is complete till he is dead , an auto - biography is therefore a mis - nomer . As such works , however , generally fall still - born from the press , an author may fairly be said to have lost his life as soon as he is deliv ...
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... man's wife , of great rank and fortune , lamented very much that she had no children . A medical gentleman who was ... man , " which your Majesty's enemies bring against me . " An English gentleman was writing a letter in a coffee- house ...
... man's wife , of great rank and fortune , lamented very much that she had no children . A medical gentleman who was ... man , " which your Majesty's enemies bring against me . " An English gentleman was writing a letter in a coffee- house ...
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