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... desires . We may certainly call him happy . The records of such a character , even when concerned . with great affairs , cannot be among the most romantic . Neither can they possibly charm us , like the story of great genius , with its ...
... desires . We may certainly call him happy . The records of such a character , even when concerned . with great affairs , cannot be among the most romantic . Neither can they possibly charm us , like the story of great genius , with its ...
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... desires , no vain regrets : he lived in his work and in his home , un- disturbed , as it were , by the passions . That " passionless bride , divine tranquillity , " which the Roman poet so pas- sionately and so vainly wooed , gave ...
... desires , no vain regrets : he lived in his work and in his home , un- disturbed , as it were , by the passions . That " passionless bride , divine tranquillity , " which the Roman poet so pas- sionately and so vainly wooed , gave ...
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... desire discussion and debate over his grave — and that discussion , as usual , hot , passionate , and inconclusive . He who never grumbled shall not have grumbling done for him . The biographer may end in the words of Tacitus , as ...
... desire discussion and debate over his grave — and that discussion , as usual , hot , passionate , and inconclusive . He who never grumbled shall not have grumbling done for him . The biographer may end in the words of Tacitus , as ...
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... hard thinking and considerable anxiety . Rather he was possessed by a desire to believe more and to hope more 1 Letters and Memoir of Bishop Shirley , p . 217 . than is consistent with a conventional orthodoxy within the Church.
... hard thinking and considerable anxiety . Rather he was possessed by a desire to believe more and to hope more 1 Letters and Memoir of Bishop Shirley , p . 217 . than is consistent with a conventional orthodoxy within the Church.
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... desire to separate himself from that branch of the Church in which he was born . Indeed , as appears from later letters to other correspondents , he held that the Church is one body - in Russia , in Rome , in England — and that a man ...
... desire to separate himself from that branch of the Church in which he was born . Indeed , as appears from later letters to other correspondents , he held that the Church is one body - in Russia , in Rome , in England — and that a man ...
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