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Page 101
... death , or rather , " of something after death ; " and what rational man , who seriously thinks of quitting all that he has ever known , and going into a new and unknown state of being , can be without that dread ? But his fear was from ...
... death , or rather , " of something after death ; " and what rational man , who seriously thinks of quitting all that he has ever known , and going into a new and unknown state of being , can be without that dread ? But his fear was from ...
Page 147
... death was lamented , I think , in forty languages . And I would have had at every coronation , and every death of a king , every Gaudium , and every Luctus , University - verses , in as many languages as can be acquired . I would have ...
... death was lamented , I think , in forty languages . And I would have had at every coronation , and every death of a king , every Gaudium , and every Luctus , University - verses , in as many languages as can be acquired . I would have ...
Page 435
... death . MRS . KNOWLES . " Nay , thou should'st not have a horrour for what is the gate of life . " JOHNSON . ( standing upon the hearth rolling about , with a serious , solemn , and somewhat gloomy air :) " No rational man can die with ...
... death . MRS . KNOWLES . " Nay , thou should'st not have a horrour for what is the gate of life . " JOHNSON . ( standing upon the hearth rolling about , with a serious , solemn , and somewhat gloomy air :) " No rational man can die with ...
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