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... leave the babblers and backbiters who prate of " mutual admiration " and the cant of a coterie absorbed in its own self - esteem and fettered by its own passwords , to the ultimate proof or disproof of simple fact and plain evidence ...
... leave the babblers and backbiters who prate of " mutual admiration " and the cant of a coterie absorbed in its own self - esteem and fettered by its own passwords , to the ultimate proof or disproof of simple fact and plain evidence ...
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... leave the dissection of names and the anatomy of probabilities to the things of chatter and chuckle so well and scientifically defined long since by Mr. Charles Reade as " anonymuncules who go scribbling about ; " there is never any ...
... leave the dissection of names and the anatomy of probabilities to the things of chatter and chuckle so well and scientifically defined long since by Mr. Charles Reade as " anonymuncules who go scribbling about ; " there is never any ...
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... leave the mind exalted and reconciled . But this dew of heaven is enough to quench or allay the flames of any hell . There are words of a sweetness un- surpassable , as these : " Tout cela s'en va , et il n'y aura plus de chansons ...
... leave the mind exalted and reconciled . But this dew of heaven is enough to quench or allay the flames of any hell . There are words of a sweetness un- surpassable , as these : " Tout cela s'en va , et il n'y aura plus de chansons ...
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... leave upon it a spell to consume and transmute whatever a weaker touch would leave in it of repulsive . Whether or not we are now speaking of a great poet , of a name imperishable , is not a question which can be gravely deliberated . I ...
... leave upon it a spell to consume and transmute whatever a weaker touch would leave in it of repulsive . Whether or not we are now speaking of a great poet , of a name imperishable , is not a question which can be gravely deliberated . I ...
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... leaving Brussels , it is not everybody who can impose the doom of exile ; to ex- pulsion the foreigner may condemn you , to exile he cannot . Exile is from the fatherland alone ; a man's own country is the only one terrible to him who ...
... leaving Brussels , it is not everybody who can impose the doom of exile ; to ex- pulsion the foreigner may condemn you , to exile he cannot . Exile is from the fatherland alone ; a man's own country is the only one terrible to him who ...
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