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... human wisdom - deep in its implications of character , its shrewd discernment , its rugged common sense , its rapier thrusts at human frailties , its solace for the baffled , harried , world - beaten mind . In all of these rich assets ...
... human wisdom - deep in its implications of character , its shrewd discernment , its rugged common sense , its rapier thrusts at human frailties , its solace for the baffled , harried , world - beaten mind . In all of these rich assets ...
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... Human Wishes " has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his " London . " More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of " London , " than with the profound reflection of " The Vanity of ...
... Human Wishes " has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his " London . " More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of " London , " than with the profound reflection of " The Vanity of ...
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... human life , and shews us that this stage of our being is full of " vanity and vexation of spirit . " To those who look no further than the present life , or who maintain that human nature has not fallen from the state in which it was ...
... human life , and shews us that this stage of our being is full of " vanity and vexation of spirit . " To those who look no further than the present life , or who maintain that human nature has not fallen from the state in which it was ...
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