Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection, Quotations of Maxims, Metaphors, Counsels, Cautions, Aphorisms, Proverbs, &c. &c. from Writers of All Ages and Both Hemispheres |
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... Body , especially when the knowledge of it mainly con- duces to his welfare , and directs his application of his own Powers . Ancestry . Colton . IT is with Antiquity as with Ancestry , Nations are proud of the one , and Individuals of ...
... Body , especially when the knowledge of it mainly con- duces to his welfare , and directs his application of his own Powers . Ancestry . Colton . IT is with Antiquity as with Ancestry , Nations are proud of the one , and Individuals of ...
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... bodies in Chemistry ; very good perhaps in themselves , yet fly off and refuse the least conjunc- tion with each other . The Antiquary.- Peter Pindar . RARE are the Buttons of a Roman's breeches , In Antiquarian eyes surpassing riches ...
... bodies in Chemistry ; very good perhaps in themselves , yet fly off and refuse the least conjunc- tion with each other . The Antiquary.- Peter Pindar . RARE are the Buttons of a Roman's breeches , In Antiquarian eyes surpassing riches ...
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... Body , and Cohe- rence of his Parts , being so strange and paradoxical , that I hold it to be the greatest Miracle of Nature . Atheism . Washington Allston . - THE atheist may speculate , and go on speculating till he is brought up by ...
... Body , and Cohe- rence of his Parts , being so strange and paradoxical , that I hold it to be the greatest Miracle of Nature . Atheism . Washington Allston . - THE atheist may speculate , and go on speculating till he is brought up by ...
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... Body doth procure To habit in For of the Soul the Body form doth take , For Soul is form and doth the Body make . Beauty . - Byron . SHE was a Form of 26 ILLUSTRATIONS OF TRUTH ;
... Body doth procure To habit in For of the Soul the Body form doth take , For Soul is form and doth the Body make . Beauty . - Byron . SHE was a Form of 26 ILLUSTRATIONS OF TRUTH ;
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... Body thought . ' An order and a mode of Beauty which , the more we know , we accuse ourselves for not having before discovered those thousand Graces which bespeak that their owner has a Soul . This is that Beauty which never cloys ...
... Body thought . ' An order and a mode of Beauty which , the more we know , we accuse ourselves for not having before discovered those thousand Graces which bespeak that their owner has a Soul . This is that Beauty which never cloys ...
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