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... 176 CHAPTER XV . ILL - NATURED PHILOSOPHY . - Cynics - Timon — Modern Imitators — Young Cynics — Sneering - Carlyle and Thackeray - True Love - Falseness of Cynicism- Byron 189 CHAPTER XVI . TOO - GOOD PEOPLE . - Saints xii CONTENTS .
... 176 CHAPTER XV . ILL - NATURED PHILOSOPHY . - Cynics - Timon — Modern Imitators — Young Cynics — Sneering - Carlyle and Thackeray - True Love - Falseness of Cynicism- Byron 189 CHAPTER XVI . TOO - GOOD PEOPLE . - Saints xii CONTENTS .
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... cynic up as an example to be followed . The time for such extreme and feverish hatred of mankind as is exemplified in Shakspere's ' Timon of Athens , ' is gone by . Although almost all great men have found the world ' but as the world ...
... cynic up as an example to be followed . The time for such extreme and feverish hatred of mankind as is exemplified in Shakspere's ' Timon of Athens , ' is gone by . Although almost all great men have found the world ' but as the world ...
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... cynic sneer , and perpetually cry out , ' Ah ! it is all very well , saintly Miss Dash and good Mr. Blank , but you have a skeleton in your cupboard as well as the rest . So on , ad nauseam , the phrases of social scepticism soon grow ...
... cynic sneer , and perpetually cry out , ' Ah ! it is all very well , saintly Miss Dash and good Mr. Blank , but you have a skeleton in your cupboard as well as the rest . So on , ad nauseam , the phrases of social scepticism soon grow ...
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... new development shall have come to its strength , the whole of the hated and contemptible nation of Philistines will have passed away . ILL - NATURED PHILOSOPHY . Cynics - Timon- Modern imitators 186 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
... new development shall have come to its strength , the whole of the hated and contemptible nation of Philistines will have passed away . ILL - NATURED PHILOSOPHY . Cynics - Timon- Modern imitators 186 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
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James Hain Friswell. ILL - NATURED PHILOSOPHY . Cynics - Timon- Modern imitators - Young Cynics - Sneering CHAPTER XV . CHAPTER XV ILL-NATURED PHILOSOPHY.
James Hain Friswell. ILL - NATURED PHILOSOPHY . Cynics - Timon- Modern imitators - Young Cynics - Sneering CHAPTER XV . CHAPTER XV ILL-NATURED PHILOSOPHY.
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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.