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Long habits of business or pleasure , and an indiscriminate intercourse with
mankind , often superinduce a great degree of insenfibility ; and the battered
veteran at last considers the admonitions of the moralist as the vain babbling of a
sophist ...
Long habits of business or pleasure , and an indiscriminate intercourse with
mankind , often superinduce a great degree of insenfibility ; and the battered
veteran at last considers the admonitions of the moralist as the vain babbling of a
sophist ...
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One day , " continued he , « he noise was nearer than usual ; and , at last , from
the cave in which I lay , I heard the parties immediately below so close upon me ,
that I could distinguish the words they spoke . After some time of horrible ...
One day , " continued he , « he noise was nearer than usual ; and , at last , from
the cave in which I lay , I heard the parties immediately below so close upon me ,
that I could distinguish the words they spoke . After some time of horrible ...
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I had then a little bundle of things , which I had « been allowed to take with me
after my mother ' s « death ; but , the night before last , somebody stole it “ from
me while I slept ; and the woman said she « would keep me no longer , and
turned ...
I had then a little bundle of things , which I had « been allowed to take with me
after my mother ' s « death ; but , the night before last , somebody stole it “ from
me while I slept ; and the woman said she « would keep me no longer , and
turned ...
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As she was fetching away the last piece , they levelled their muskets at the cubs ,
and shot them both dead ; and in her retreat they wounded the dam , but not
mortally . It would have drawn tears of pity from any but unfeeling minds , to have
...
As she was fetching away the last piece , they levelled their muskets at the cubs ,
and shot them both dead ; and in her retreat they wounded the dam , but not
mortally . It would have drawn tears of pity from any but unfeeling minds , to have
...
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... at last , lies level with the dust , with Babylon and ancient Rome . Luxury , the
inevitable confequence of what is falsely called national prosperity , becomes the
grave of empires , and of all that could adorn them , or render their long duration
...
... at last , lies level with the dust , with Babylon and ancient Rome . Luxury , the
inevitable confequence of what is falsely called national prosperity , becomes the
grave of empires , and of all that could adorn them , or render their long duration
...
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