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Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions: And on Other Subjects

Samuel Bailey - Belief and doubt - 1821 - 300 pages
...the process, are mere delusions, which can terminate in nothing but disappointment and mortification. It cannot be too deeply impressed on the mind, that...is as absurd to expect them without it, as to hope (1 for a harvest where we have not sown the seed. As men often deceive themselves with the hope of...
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Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions and on Other Subjects

Samuel Bailey - Belief - 1826 - 350 pages
...the process, are mere delusions, which can terminate in nothing but disappointment and mortification. It cannot be too deeply impressed on the mind, that...hope for a harvest where we have not sown the seed. As men often deceive themselves with the hope of acquiring knowledge without application, so they calculate...
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Ernest Maltravers

Lord Edward Lytton Bulwer - 1837 - 376 pages
...— I will never sigh for renown — if I am to purchase shadows at such a price ! " CHAPTER IV. " II cannot be too deeply impressed on the mind , that...hope for a harvest where we have not sown the seed." " In everything we do , we may be possibly laying a train of consequences, the operation of which may...
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Ernest Maltravers, Volume 1

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Fiction - 1837 - 226 pages
...— if I am to purchase shadows at such a price !" CHAPTER IV. " It cannot be too deeply impreased on the mind, that application is the price to be paid...hope for a harvest where we have not sown the seed." ** In everything we do, we may be possibly laying a train of consequences, the operation of which may...
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Ernest Maltravers, Volume 1

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1838 - 224 pages
...author — I will never sigh for renown — if I am to urchase shadows at such a price !" CHAPTER IV. " It cannot be too deeply impressed on the mind, that...hope for a harvest where we have not sown the seed." " In everything we do, we may be possibly laying a train of consequences, the operation of which may...
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The Philadelphia Visitor, Volume 6

1840 - 320 pages
...wai mind that application is the price to be paid i indeed a cave, a long cave, at one end of whict for mental acquisitions, and that it is as absurd...for a harvest where we have not sown the seed. THE PHILADELPHIA VISITER. X 155 of one or more females voices. In the open! lighted space about thirty...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 8

1842 - 818 pages
...deeply impressed on the mind, that application U the price to be paid for mental acquisitions ; w] that it is as absurd to expect them without it, as...hope for a harvest where we have not sown the seed. — Bailey's While many, of higher pretensions than I can hoist, have passed away much of their life...
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Ernest Maltravers Or The Eleusinia, Volume 8

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1844 - 468 pages
...author — I will never sigh for renown — if I am to purchase shadows at such a price!" CHAPTER IV. " It cannot be too deeply impressed on the mind, that application is the price to he paid for mental acquisitions, and that it is as absurd to expect them without it, as to hope for...
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A System of English Grammar

Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...the process, are mere delusions, which can terminate in nothing but disappointment and mortification. It cannot be too deeply impressed on the mind, that...hope for a harvest where we have not sown the seed. — Idem. Cease, then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know...
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The New Parley Library ..., Volumes 1-2

1844 - 836 pages
...APPLICATION. — It cannot be too deeply impressed on themind, that application is the price to be puid for mental acquisitions, and that it is as absurd...hope for a harvest where we have not sown the seed. PHYSIOGNOMY. — Is a true science — the man of profound thought, the man of ability, and above nil,...
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