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... Death , - " Black it stood as night , ་ Fierce as ten furies , terrible as hell . " Yet numbers of people , nothing frighten- ed , would buy and read . " No work , " Dr. Francis tells us , " had a demand for readers comparable to that ...
... Death , - " Black it stood as night , ་ Fierce as ten furies , terrible as hell . " Yet numbers of people , nothing frighten- ed , would buy and read . " No work , " Dr. Francis tells us , " had a demand for readers comparable to that ...
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... death drew near , the memories of early youth arose vividly in his mind . He wished to be buried in the cemetery of the Quakers , in whose principles his father had edu- cated him . He sent for a leading mem- ber of the sect to ask a ...
... death drew near , the memories of early youth arose vividly in his mind . He wished to be buried in the cemetery of the Quakers , in whose principles his father had edu- cated him . He sent for a leading mem- ber of the sect to ask a ...
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... death of his wife , by Sir James Mackin- tosh to Dr. Parr ? Such was she whom I have lost ; and I have lost her when her excellent natural sense was rapidly im- proving , after eight years of struggle and distress had bound us fast ...
... death of his wife , by Sir James Mackin- tosh to Dr. Parr ? Such was she whom I have lost ; and I have lost her when her excellent natural sense was rapidly im- proving , after eight years of struggle and distress had bound us fast ...
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... death in other men , But your damn'd Poet lives and writes agen . ' " And so they do , even unto the present , otherwise blessed day . But , dear old friend , is not this sublime sneering ? and is there not an honest ray or two of truth ...
... death in other men , But your damn'd Poet lives and writes agen . ' " And so they do , even unto the present , otherwise blessed day . But , dear old friend , is not this sublime sneering ? and is there not an honest ray or two of truth ...
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... death begins to fall upon them , it is as ready to aid in their destruction . Like calumny , which blackens whatsoever is suspected , oxygen pounces upon the failing and completes their ruin . The processes of fermenta- tion and ...
... death begins to fall upon them , it is as ready to aid in their destruction . Like calumny , which blackens whatsoever is suspected , oxygen pounces upon the failing and completes their ruin . The processes of fermenta- tion and ...
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