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Some men have no right to perform great deeds, or think high thoughts;
and when they do so, it is a kind of humbug. They had better keep within
their own propriety.

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In England, in 1761, a man and his wife, formerly in good circumstances,
died very poor, and were buried at the expense of the parish. This
coming to the ears of the friends of their better days, they had the
corpses taken out of the ground and buried in a more genteel manner!

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In the "Annual Register," Vol. IV., for 1761, there is a letter from
Cromwell to Fleetwood, dated August 22, 1653, which Carlyle appears not
to have given. Also one, without date, to the Speaker of the House of
Commons, narrating the taking of Basing House.

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Recently, in an old house which has been taken down at the corner of
Bulfinch Street and Bowdoin Square, a perfect and full-grown skeleton
was discovered, concealed between the ceiling and the floor of a room in
the upper story. Another skeleton was not long since found in similar
circumstances.

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