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... hands . Your votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are hoarding up anguish , torment , and remorse for old age . As for me , I am the friend of gods and of good men , an agreeable companion to the ...
... hands . Your votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are hoarding up anguish , torment , and remorse for old age . As for me , I am the friend of gods and of good men , an agreeable companion to the ...
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... hands , and a lion's skin on their shoulders , to root out monsters , and destroy tyrants ; but , as the finest author of all antiquity has said upon this very occasion , Though a man has not the abilities to distinguish himself in the ...
... hands , and a lion's skin on their shoulders , to root out monsters , and destroy tyrants ; but , as the finest author of all antiquity has said upon this very occasion , Though a man has not the abilities to distinguish himself in the ...
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... hand , and her 30 garter in the other . A gentleman of an ancient family in Norfolk is almost out of his wits upon account of a grey- hound , that , after having been his inseparable companion for ten years , is at last run mad ...
... hand , and her 30 garter in the other . A gentleman of an ancient family in Norfolk is almost out of his wits upon account of a grey- hound , that , after having been his inseparable companion for ten years , is at last run mad ...
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... hand of Jupiter as he sat upon his throne , and the other on his left . The first was filled with all the blessings , and the other with all the calamities , of human life . Jupiter , in the beginning of his reign , finding the 20 world ...
... hand of Jupiter as he sat upon his throne , and the other on his left . The first was filled with all the blessings , and the other with all the calamities , of human life . Jupiter , in the beginning of his reign , finding the 20 world ...
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... hand vessel . Whereas , to their great surprise , they discovered content , cheerfulness , health , innocence , and other the most substantial blessings of life , in cottages , shades , and soli- tudes . There was another circumstance ...
... hand vessel . Whereas , to their great surprise , they discovered content , cheerfulness , health , innocence , and other the most substantial blessings of life , in cottages , shades , and soli- tudes . There was another circumstance ...
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Strona 67 - man is but a shadow and life a dream.' Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a musical instrument in his hand.