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... hope , needs , to quicken his paralyzed will in the direction of one tremendous effort for escape from the thick night that black- ens around him . The confirmed opium - eater is habitually hopeless . His attempts at reformation have ...
... hope , needs , to quicken his paralyzed will in the direction of one tremendous effort for escape from the thick night that black- ens around him . The confirmed opium - eater is habitually hopeless . His attempts at reformation have ...
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... hope that he may be released from the frightful thral- dom which has so long held him , infirm in body , imbecile in will , despairing in the present , and full of direful forebod- ing for the future . In giving the subjoined narratives ...
... hope that he may be released from the frightful thral- dom which has so long held him , infirm in body , imbecile in will , despairing in the present , and full of direful forebod- ing for the future . In giving the subjoined narratives ...
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... hope which the writer in- dulges , that while contributing something to the current amount of knowledge as to the horrors attending the habit- ual use of opium , the story may not fail to encourage some who now regard themselves as ...
... hope which the writer in- dulges , that while contributing something to the current amount of knowledge as to the horrors attending the habit- ual use of opium , the story may not fail to encourage some who now regard themselves as ...
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... hope , though I thought in no very confident tone , that I might be successful , and pretending to shut the door , watch- ed my receding footsteps till I turned a distant corner . I now pass the house of the other physician to whom I ...
... hope , though I thought in no very confident tone , that I might be successful , and pretending to shut the door , watch- ed my receding footsteps till I turned a distant corner . I now pass the house of the other physician to whom I ...
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... hope that constant occupation would divert the attention from the nervousness under which I suffered and would restore the self - reliance which had so long failed me . It was a foolish experiment , and might have proved a fatal one ...
... hope that constant occupation would divert the attention from the nervousness under which I suffered and would restore the self - reliance which had so long failed me . It was a foolish experiment , and might have proved a fatal one ...
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