10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SYBARITICAL»
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sybaritical in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Student's Manual of English Literature. A History of ...
In 1688 he entered the household of Sir William Temple, a distant connexion of
his family, who was then residing in luxurious retirement at his beautiful villa of
Moor Park in Surrey, where the cautious and sybaritical old diplomatist amused ...
Thomas Budd SHAW, William Smith, 1864
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The British American Magazine
... how different was the sybaritical indolent philosophy of the epicurean poet,
teaching from the brevity and uncertainty of life the wisdom of evading its burdens
and enjoying its pleasures, from the restless, devouring, insatiable thirst for glory,
...
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The patriotic fund journal
Would our "Vellintun" have indulged in such a sybaritical luxury? The very
thought was an outrage upon the general's soldiership! No : he would bestride a
Bucephalus, and, like him, I too would be mounted on a war-horse. " I would be a
...
Lloyd's patriotic fund, 1854
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Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose
These sybaritical puppies, the smaller they be (and thereto if they have an hole in
the foreparts of their heads) the better they are accepted, the more pleasure also
they provoke, as meet playfellows for mincing mistresses to bear in their ...
I'll come an uninvited and unexpected Guest. I would know before Hand. Pe. I
would know two Days before Hand. Give me Notice two Days before you come.
Make me acquainted two Days before. Ch. If you will have me, I'll make a
Sybaritical ...
"Everything that is white should be destroyed" is an ideological platform that is "
gaming niggers" and, as far as purpose, help, hard work, fighting or you name it,
is concerned, amounts to sybaritical collaboration with white elite society.
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Bushido, The Soul of Japan
Above them were the military nobles, the daimio, and the court nobles, the kugé
—these higher, sybaritical nobles being fighters only in name. Below them were
masses of the common people—mechanics, tradesmen, and peasants—whose ...
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Diary Illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth: ...
In sifting Paturzo regarding the journey to Jerusalem, the slimy vipers which draw
venom, as it were, from household herbs, were more successful. They laid open
much to amaze the Peers of England, the most sybaritical inhabitants of the ...
George (Great Britain, King, IV.), 1838
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The anatomy of melancholy: what it is, with all the kinds, ...
I will say nothing of those prodigious prodigals, perdendx pecuniar genitos, as he
b taxed Anthony, 2ui patrimonii* sine ulla fori calumnia amittunt, saith, c Cyprian,
and d mad Sybaritical spendthrifts, Quique una comedunt patrimo- nia cceiia ...
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Tribune essays: leading articles contributed to the New York ...
... or an admiration for the general practice of our government ; into lives
secluded, sybaritical, and proudly, boastingly shallow and useless. The times are
full of great occasions, and suggest great duties to the sinewy and courageous
nature.
Horace Greeley, Charles Taber Congdon
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SYBARITICAL»
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The Pleasure Domes of Florida
Best of all, there were the great hotels—gilded, silk-upholstered, sybaritical hotels that looked like a charmingly demented version of the Alhambra crossed with ... «Oxford American, Jul 15»
Illuminations for Bartleby The Scrivener: Herman Melville's …
Bartleby appeared on the scene right after Pierre—that is to say right after years of critical disgust over his new “sybaritical” style had arrived on the scene. «MobyLives, Dec 11»
