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I might answer this by simply referring to my own character, and by asking, in my turn, Where, in the history of the world, has a man of my order ever been found without a woman in the background self-immolated on the altar of his life?
This wondrous boy, of a genius beyond all comparison the greatest that ever yet was developed and extinguished at the age of eighteen, self-taught, self-struggling, self-immolated. Nothing in literature like that life and that death! And, turning from the history of the imposture to the poems themselves, the young reader bent before their beauty, literally awed and breathless.
The mother knowing this, and confident that her son William would, if necessary, offer himself a self-immolated victim, sooner than any evil should happen to his charge, felt little apprehension for her daughter's safety. The travelling party, consisting of Kate, her brother, and Mr.
Their fate was perhaps inevitable. Men who dare to be the first in great movements are ever self-immolated victims. But I suppose that it was better for them to be bleaching on their gibbets, than crawling at the feet of a wooden rood, and believing it to be God.
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