Kings & Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandA. A. Knopf, 1942 - 323 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... mind of petty thoughts and contemptible desires . Per- haps he preserved his reason as long as he did by revenging ... mind , but by hav- ing too violent a nature for even so strong a mind to cope with ! And singular though he was in so ...
... mind of petty thoughts and contemptible desires . Per- haps he preserved his reason as long as he did by revenging ... mind , but by hav- ing too violent a nature for even so strong a mind to cope with ! And singular though he was in so ...
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... mind . Yet that mind overtops in fascination even the vital , strong - edged , self - consuming personality that sought al- ways to be master , yet was servant of odd causes ; that while flaying mankind , assisted obscure and defeated ...
... mind . Yet that mind overtops in fascination even the vital , strong - edged , self - consuming personality that sought al- ways to be master , yet was servant of odd causes ; that while flaying mankind , assisted obscure and defeated ...
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... mind mimicking sanity , not diffusing it , a mind punish- ing a world that pretends to be better than it is by making it worse . Swift's undoing was that he allowed himself nothing to fall back on : beyond even rejecting the world with ...
... mind mimicking sanity , not diffusing it , a mind punish- ing a world that pretends to be better than it is by making it worse . Swift's undoing was that he allowed himself nothing to fall back on : beyond even rejecting the world with ...
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