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Euarne of the lovely figure and face of perfection,
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Doth it not carry thee back in spirit to the very baby hours of creation, the "good old days of Adam and Eve?" and doth it not represent unto thee this delightful art as known and practised in full perfection,
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829 Various
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There he obtaineth the complete yogic wisdom belonging to his former body, and then again laboureth for perfection,
Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal
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Woman, clad only in youth and in gallant perfection,
A Bather 1922
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Nature, really great, grand nature such as formerly seemed beyond the reach of my longings, such as constituted my idea, my presentiment of perfection,
Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903
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The rounded mound marks now, and will continue to mark, the resting place of one who, in life, bore the type of God's highest creation - the attribute of a Creator's mightiest perfection,
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For the general public such documents as the 'Fare thee well' were circulating in England, and he frankly confessed his wife's virtues and his own sins to Madame de Staël and others in Switzerland, declaring himself in the wrong, sensible of his errors, and longing to cast himself at the feet of that serene perfection,
Lady Byron Vindicated Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 1870
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"Beauty," remarks a philosophic panegyrist of physical perfection,
Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861
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I believe there has only been one man who would not acknowledge this necessity, and strove always to reach perfection,
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin John Ruskin 1859
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For the general public such documents as the 'Fare thee well' were circulating in England, and he frankly confessed his wife's virtues and his own sins to Madame de Stael and others in Switzerland, declaring himself in the wrong, sensible of his errors, and longing to cast himself at the feet of that serene perfection,
Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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