The Moral Probe: Or One Hundred and Two Common Sense Essays on the Nature of Men and Things, Interspersed with Scraps of Science and History : with an Appendix ...The author, 1848 - 328 pages |
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... scorpion , the same damning miasma , as it was when his master hand delineated its dark and fiendish physiognomy . As then , its pestifer- ous breath pollutes with each respiration - its forked tongue is charged with the same poison ...
... scorpion , the same damning miasma , as it was when his master hand delineated its dark and fiendish physiognomy . As then , its pestifer- ous breath pollutes with each respiration - its forked tongue is charged with the same poison ...
Page 115
... scorpions . You are on the confines of the castle of despair , within the centripetal motion of the whirlpool of destruction , and within the folding coils of the Boa Constrictor of ruin . Retrace your steps quickly , or you may be lost ...
... scorpions . You are on the confines of the castle of despair , within the centripetal motion of the whirlpool of destruction , and within the folding coils of the Boa Constrictor of ruin . Retrace your steps quickly , or you may be lost ...
Page 120
... wicked cease from troubling , and the weary are at rest . Transporting thought ! most sovereign balm for the scorpion stings of scathing , blighting In- gratitude . INEQUALITIES OF LIFE . 121 INEQUALITIES OF LIFE . AT 120 THE PROBE .
... wicked cease from troubling , and the weary are at rest . Transporting thought ! most sovereign balm for the scorpion stings of scathing , blighting In- gratitude . INEQUALITIES OF LIFE . 121 INEQUALITIES OF LIFE . AT 120 THE PROBE .
Page 127
... scorpion lashes of this imp of Satan . Nay , more - female character , basking in the sunshine of innocence , has often been withered , blight- ed , ruined ; by its chilling breath . Let each reader examine , and see if this propensity ...
... scorpion lashes of this imp of Satan . Nay , more - female character , basking in the sunshine of innocence , has often been withered , blight- ed , ruined ; by its chilling breath . Let each reader examine , and see if this propensity ...
Page 165
... scorpion heart - an evil brain with an active body - often sacrificing honor , integrity , and even their friends ; to carry out plans , based entirely upon PARTY SPIRIT ; pressing towards the end , with the force of a locomotive ...
... scorpion heart - an evil brain with an active body - often sacrificing honor , integrity , and even their friends ; to carry out plans , based entirely upon PARTY SPIRIT ; pressing towards the end , with the force of a locomotive ...
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