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... kind of remorse , ' Why , I have not made any of the little beggars cry to - day ! ' He was the bully of the school . So Tiberius Cæsar is said to have regretted that the whole world had not but one neck , so that by a stroke he could ...
... kind of remorse , ' Why , I have not made any of the little beggars cry to - day ! ' He was the bully of the school . So Tiberius Cæsar is said to have regretted that the whole world had not but one neck , so that by a stroke he could ...
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... kind ; for the true valour , different enough from ferocity , is the basis of all : a more legitimate kind of valour , that showing itself against the untamed forests and dark brute powers of Nature , to conquer Nature for us . ' Truly ...
... kind ; for the true valour , different enough from ferocity , is the basis of all : a more legitimate kind of valour , that showing itself against the untamed forests and dark brute powers of Nature , to conquer Nature for us . ' Truly ...
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... kind of reflection about them , -they are fond of putting things off ; they find it convenient to wait ; what they have to do will be done quite as well to - morrow , and so on . Such people no doubt have their use . They are the dead ...
... kind of reflection about them , -they are fond of putting things off ; they find it convenient to wait ; what they have to do will be done quite as well to - morrow , and so on . Such people no doubt have their use . They are the dead ...
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... kind of goodness out of him . Action is better than inaction ; to have done even that small amount of murder is nobler in his opinion than to have done nothing . What he selfishly desires is to be distinguished ; the blunder- headed ...
... kind of goodness out of him . Action is better than inaction ; to have done even that small amount of murder is nobler in his opinion than to have done nothing . What he selfishly desires is to be distinguished ; the blunder- headed ...
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... kind of tub did Diogenes live ? Was it an old washing - tub , shallow and broad , or long and deep , like a wine cask ? It is more than two thousand two hundred and eighty years since the ragged old philosopher lived . He was not worth ...
... kind of tub did Diogenes live ? Was it an old washing - tub , shallow and broad , or long and deep , like a wine cask ? It is more than two thousand two hundred and eighty years since the ragged old philosopher lived . He was not worth ...
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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.