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Page 69
... death also . It is the man's character which is the chief interest , his strength and weak- ness , his courage and despondency ; and these are nowhere more apparent than on a death - bed . It imports us as much to know how great men die ...
... death also . It is the man's character which is the chief interest , his strength and weak- ness , his courage and despondency ; and these are nowhere more apparent than on a death - bed . It imports us as much to know how great men die ...
Page 363
... death is deprivation of sensation . And there- fore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable , not because it adds to it an infinite span of time , but because it takes away the craving for ...
... death is deprivation of sensation . And there- fore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable , not because it adds to it an infinite span of time , but because it takes away the craving for ...
Page 366
... death , he transmitted the message to the airmen in his squad- ron : " This is it , chaps . " I find it in the cool determination of Captain Oates when he went out to his death in the arctic night rather than be a burden to his comrades ...
... death , he transmitted the message to the airmen in his squad- ron : " This is it , chaps . " I find it in the cool determination of Captain Oates when he went out to his death in the arctic night rather than be a burden to his comrades ...
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