The Companion: After-dinner Table-talkG. P. Putnam, 1850 - 192 páginas |
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... mankind , or what do they earlier learn or longer retain , than the love of hearing and relating things strange and incredible . How wonderful a thing is the love of wondering and of raising wonder ! ' Tis the delight of children to ...
... mankind , or what do they earlier learn or longer retain , than the love of hearing and relating things strange and incredible . How wonderful a thing is the love of wondering and of raising wonder ! ' Tis the delight of children to ...
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... Mankind are always happier for having been hap- py ; so that if you make them happy now , you make them happy twenty years hence , by the memory of it . A childhood passed with a due mixture of rational indulgence , under fond and wise ...
... Mankind are always happier for having been hap- py ; so that if you make them happy now , you make them happy twenty years hence , by the memory of it . A childhood passed with a due mixture of rational indulgence , under fond and wise ...
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... mankind can be very powerfully affected . What can be more ludicrous , than an orator delivering stale indignation , and fer- vour AFTER - DINNER TABLE - TALK . 105 Sign for a School Charles Lamb French Language Pulpit Eloquence Sydney ...
... mankind can be very powerfully affected . What can be more ludicrous , than an orator delivering stale indignation , and fer- vour AFTER - DINNER TABLE - TALK . 105 Sign for a School Charles Lamb French Language Pulpit Eloquence Sydney ...
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... wretched infatuation to inter- dict such amusements as these ! What a blessing that mankind can be allured from sensual gratifica- tion , and find relaxation and pleasure in such pur- 128 AFTER DINNER TABLE - TALK . The Theatre Sydney ...
... wretched infatuation to inter- dict such amusements as these ! What a blessing that mankind can be allured from sensual gratifica- tion , and find relaxation and pleasure in such pur- 128 AFTER DINNER TABLE - TALK . The Theatre Sydney ...
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... mankind— neither to give nor to take quarter . If he tells the crimes of great men , they fall upon him with the iron hands of the law ; if he tells them of virtues , when they have any , then the mob attacks him with slan- der . But if ...
... mankind— neither to give nor to take quarter . If he tells the crimes of great men , they fall upon him with the iron hands of the law ; if he tells them of virtues , when they have any , then the mob attacks him with slan- der . But if ...
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