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... thing to prescribe for people , to whom it would be vain to recommend moderation in the use of intoxicating liquors . But we have yet to learn that teetotallers , inaccessible though they be to the , temptations of drink , are equally ...
... thing to prescribe for people , to whom it would be vain to recommend moderation in the use of intoxicating liquors . But we have yet to learn that teetotallers , inaccessible though they be to the , temptations of drink , are equally ...
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... thing if Sir Benjamin Brodie , or some other competent authority , would tell us what sort of fermented liquor is likely to be the least in- jurious ; and in what form , if we must smoke , we can consume tobacco with the greatest chance ...
... thing if Sir Benjamin Brodie , or some other competent authority , would tell us what sort of fermented liquor is likely to be the least in- jurious ; and in what form , if we must smoke , we can consume tobacco with the greatest chance ...
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... thing surpassing these pages of brilliant elo- quence . " Our own opinion does not coincide with this . In the description of Marie Antoinette , it is the sentiment rather than the language which has achieved so vast a popularity . That ...
... thing surpassing these pages of brilliant elo- quence . " Our own opinion does not coincide with this . In the description of Marie Antoinette , it is the sentiment rather than the language which has achieved so vast a popularity . That ...
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... things , however hopeful , has yet to get itself established on sure and rational grounds . We have seen the error ... thing to study the great works of great masters . But it will not be enough for us to call back into fuller life the ...
... things , however hopeful , has yet to get itself established on sure and rational grounds . We have seen the error ... thing to study the great works of great masters . But it will not be enough for us to call back into fuller life the ...
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... thing , especially if they have cost a heavy sum to build . They have no time , if they ever have the will , to ask themselves why a statue should be set up in the clouds beyond the power of human recognition , or what business a ...
... thing , especially if they have cost a heavy sum to build . They have no time , if they ever have the will , to ask themselves why a statue should be set up in the clouds beyond the power of human recognition , or what business a ...
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