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... short life may not be half lost in pains , " well remembering and apply- ing the necessity of dying . " Be- When I can meet all these things in tween the periods of birth and burial , a man above the trivial consideration I would fain ...
... short life may not be half lost in pains , " well remembering and apply- ing the necessity of dying . " Be- When I can meet all these things in tween the periods of birth and burial , a man above the trivial consideration I would fain ...
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... short experience has shown , spring of meditation ; the disease of you must have better observed . I an idle imagination , not the child of am sure any thing is more accepta- hurry and diversion . I am afraid ble to you than news and ...
... short experience has shown , spring of meditation ; the disease of you must have better observed . I an idle imagination , not the child of am sure any thing is more accepta- hurry and diversion . I am afraid ble to you than news and ...
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... short , it is well to when religion and hope do not en- be guided in it by patience and ac- courage , but terror and dismay are companied by hope , and it will seem on every side , with haste and confu- easier ; long it can't appear ...
... short , it is well to when religion and hope do not en- be guided in it by patience and ac- courage , but terror and dismay are companied by hope , and it will seem on every side , with haste and confu- easier ; long it can't appear ...
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... short of Chloe and Phil- spaniel better than a courtier ; and a lis , I have no Pastor fido , no lan- hound is more sagacious than a fox- guishing Corydon to sigh with the hunter ; for a fox - hunter is only the zephyrs , and complain ...
... short of Chloe and Phil- spaniel better than a courtier ; and a lis , I have no Pastor fido , no lan- hound is more sagacious than a fox- guishing Corydon to sigh with the hunter ; for a fox - hunter is only the zephyrs , and complain ...
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... short , have lived like an owl first occasion : and as I imagine in the desert , or a pelican in the wil- you are glad you are going to be derness ; after defying monsters so married , I wish you joy of that glad- furious and fell ...
... short , have lived like an owl first occasion : and as I imagine in the desert , or a pelican in the wil- you are glad you are going to be derness ; after defying monsters so married , I wish you joy of that glad- furious and fell ...
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