The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 57Century Company, 1898 - American literature |
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Page 324
... nature . Indeed , without quie- tude life to him was intolerable . His nature was the very antipodes of that of Gibbon , who managed to sit as a mute for eight sessions in the House of Commons ! Nothing annoyed him more than noisy ...
... nature . Indeed , without quie- tude life to him was intolerable . His nature was the very antipodes of that of Gibbon , who managed to sit as a mute for eight sessions in the House of Commons ! Nothing annoyed him more than noisy ...
Page 329
... nature . Was it not domestic bliss itself when the tall and lithe figure of Carlyle squatted by the hearth at evening and puffed up the chimney the smoke from his long clay pipe , impregnated , as he himself thought , with not a little ...
... nature . Was it not domestic bliss itself when the tall and lithe figure of Carlyle squatted by the hearth at evening and puffed up the chimney the smoke from his long clay pipe , impregnated , as he himself thought , with not a little ...
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... nature . He lived face to face with nature , and allowed no barriers to be inter- posed ; allowed himself not to be artificially withdrawn from the world of which he was a part . Asceticism , abstinence , and holiness by separation he ...
... nature . He lived face to face with nature , and allowed no barriers to be inter- posed ; allowed himself not to be artificially withdrawn from the world of which he was a part . Asceticism , abstinence , and holiness by separation he ...
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