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Mabel's Mistake

Mabel's Mistake

Stephens, Ann Sophia

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General Juvenile Fiction

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ISBN13: 9798718254570
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 25 2021
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.98
Height: 0.80 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Book Excerpt: e discovered. An epicure in all things, he had attained to a sort of self-worship, which would have been sublime if applied to the First Cause of all that is beautiful. His splendid person was held in reverence, not because it was made in the image of his God, but for the powers of enjoyment it possessed--for the symmetry it displayed, and the defiance which it had so long given to the inroads of time.As a whole and in detail, this old man was a self-worshipper. Like all idolaters he was blind to the defects of his earthly god, and if a gleam of unpleasant self knowledge would occasionally force itself upon his notice, the conviction only rendered him more urgent to extort homage from others.The room in which this old man sat, was a library fitted up expressly for himself. It was one of his peculiarities that his sources of enjoyment must be exclusive, in order to be valuable. He would not willingly have shared a single tint of that beautiful sunset with another, unless satisfied that the admiRead More

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