A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... death . Where authorities differ in regard to dates , the extreme limits are mentioned ; where exact information is unattainable , the fact is indicated by a blank . The list of authors is followed by a list of translators , with the ...
... death . Where authorities differ in regard to dates , the extreme limits are mentioned ; where exact information is unattainable , the fact is indicated by a blank . The list of authors is followed by a list of translators , with the ...
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... death to thought . : 294 Carlyle Letter to John Carlyle , March 27 , 1831 . Oh , thou who art able to write a book , which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do , envy not him whom they name city - builder ...
... death to thought . : 294 Carlyle Letter to John Carlyle , March 27 , 1831 . Oh , thou who art able to write a book , which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do , envy not him whom they name city - builder ...
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... death . 717 Bacon Essays . Of Parents and Children . For what is a child ? Ignorance . What is a child ? Want of knowledge . For when a child knows these things , he is in no way inferior to us . 718 Epictetus : Discourses . Bk . ii ...
... death . 717 Bacon Essays . Of Parents and Children . For what is a child ? Ignorance . What is a child ? Want of knowledge . For when a child knows these things , he is in no way inferior to us . 718 Epictetus : Discourses . Bk . ii ...
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... death . 882 Goldsmith : The Citizen of the World . Contempt is a kind of gangrene which , if it seizes one part of a character , corrupts all the rest by degrees . 883 Johnson : Works . VIII . 47. ( Oxford edition , 1825. ) No man can ...
... death . 882 Goldsmith : The Citizen of the World . Contempt is a kind of gangrene which , if it seizes one part of a character , corrupts all the rest by degrees . 883 Johnson : Works . VIII . 47. ( Oxford edition , 1825. ) No man can ...
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... Death , Necessity , Patriot- ism , Truth , Woman . Courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it , and , when it is only a kind of instinct in the soul , breaks out on all occasions , without ...
... Death , Necessity , Patriot- ism , Truth , Woman . Courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it , and , when it is only a kind of instinct in the soul , breaks out on all occasions , without ...
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