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For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round...

Italy: a poem. With historical and classical notes - Страница 378
по John Edmund Reade - 1838
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The Eclectic Review

Thomas Price, William Hendry Stowell, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1866 - 610 страници

...periods." Nor however much we may admire the fancy, do we agree with him, that " the world is not " an inn, but an hospital, and a place not to live, but to die in." It is true that an inn is sometimes used as a permanent residence, but this ia exceptional,...

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