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... better writers and from nobler minds . If in this my purpose is mistaken for pedantry I shall be grieved but not surprised . We cannot escape this egotism ; it follows us through life ; the prayer of the humble Publican is as close to ...
... better writers and from nobler minds . If in this my purpose is mistaken for pedantry I shall be grieved but not surprised . We cannot escape this egotism ; it follows us through life ; the prayer of the humble Publican is as close to ...
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... better than any other man . In shooting , fishing , novel - writing , riding , many men believe they can surpass others ; and although women , from their greater subjection to society , are less offensive in their egotism , it is said ...
... better than any other man . In shooting , fishing , novel - writing , riding , many men believe they can surpass others ; and although women , from their greater subjection to society , are less offensive in their egotism , it is said ...
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James Hain Friswell. them this justice , that they conceal it better ; and we cannot doubt that they must be often punished by hearing men talk of nothing but themselves : how I am going to plough the ten - acre lot and sow it with red ...
James Hain Friswell. them this justice , that they conceal it better ; and we cannot doubt that they must be often punished by hearing men talk of nothing but themselves : how I am going to plough the ten - acre lot and sow it with red ...
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... better when you flatter me ; ' and Pope , who says he never before saw such vanity , tells us that when Sir Godfrey lay dying , he spent his time contemplating his own monument , and had a dream , in which he saw St. Luke in heaven ...
... better when you flatter me ; ' and Pope , who says he never before saw such vanity , tells us that when Sir Godfrey lay dying , he spent his time contemplating his own monument , and had a dream , in which he saw St. Luke in heaven ...
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... better than fools . There are whole nations that have lain in the background , with regard to others , grumbling , fretting , worrying , and going back- wards , simply because they were never ready to face their true position . Whereas ...
... better than fools . There are whole nations that have lain in the background , with regard to others , grumbling , fretting , worrying , and going back- wards , simply because they were never ready to face their true position . Whereas ...
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Page 108 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 62 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 178 - O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 181 - But that vast portion, lastly, of the working class which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven^ born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes, — to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.
Page 8 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.