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... rule , and to banish the eternal reference to their own opinions ; for egotism , if pleasing to oneself , is always distasteful to others . The leader - writers of the news- papers therefore say ' we , ' instead of ' I ; ' and certainly ...
... rule , and to banish the eternal reference to their own opinions ; for egotism , if pleasing to oneself , is always distasteful to others . The leader - writers of the news- papers therefore say ' we , ' instead of ' I ; ' and certainly ...
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... rule , the other of a man's own action ; and so is properly the application of a general law to a particular instance of practice . ' Lastly , we may cite Sharp's ' Sermons ' : - ' Con- science , taken in general , is nothing less than ...
... rule , the other of a man's own action ; and so is properly the application of a general law to a particular instance of practice . ' Lastly , we may cite Sharp's ' Sermons ' : - ' Con- science , taken in general , is nothing less than ...
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... rule , which will always tell us whether we be right or wrong . Let us satisfy that , and we shall be happy ... rules ; for freedom , not chains ; for education , not suppression . ' In fact , the conscience being ' I , ' needs a ...
... rule , which will always tell us whether we be right or wrong . Let us satisfy that , and we shall be happy ... rules ; for freedom , not chains ; for education , not suppression . ' In fact , the conscience being ' I , ' needs a ...
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... rule in Taylor's great book is very sound , and that is , that ' all consciences are to walk by the same rule , and that which is just to one is so to all in the like circumstances . This makes it , ' says the bishop , ' that THE DUCTOR ...
... rule in Taylor's great book is very sound , and that is , that ' all consciences are to walk by the same rule , and that which is just to one is so to all in the like circumstances . This makes it , ' says the bishop , ' that THE DUCTOR ...
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... rule obtained . A policeman , acting under Commissioner Mayne's too sweeping and cruel order , seized a gentle- man's dog ; the owner gave the policeman a thrashing , and the magistrate said he was right , because being a plain ...
... rule obtained . A policeman , acting under Commissioner Mayne's too sweeping and cruel order , seized a gentle- man's dog ; the owner gave the policeman a thrashing , and the magistrate said he was right , because being a plain ...
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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.