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However weary we may be of the same stale round - however sick of the past - however hopeless of the future - the mind still revolts at the thought of death , because the fancied possibility of good , which always remains with life ...
However weary we may be of the same stale round - however sick of the past - however hopeless of the future - the mind still revolts at the thought of death , because the fancied possibility of good , which always remains with life ...
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from life to death , the struggle between the two in our imagination , that confounds their properties painfully together , and makes us conceive that the infant that is but just dead , still wants to breathe , to enjoy , and look about ...
from life to death , the struggle between the two in our imagination , that confounds their properties painfully together , and makes us conceive that the infant that is but just dead , still wants to breathe , to enjoy , and look about ...
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the reckless energy of barbarism in this bold defiance of death ? Had not religion something to do with it : the implicit belief in a future life , which rendered this of less value , and embodied something beyond it to the imagina- ...
the reckless energy of barbarism in this bold defiance of death ? Had not religion something to do with it : the implicit belief in a future life , which rendered this of less value , and embodied something beyond it to the imagina- ...
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