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... Society - Sweet Simplicity -Little Actions - Anxiety - Distrust - Broken Friendships — A Boy's Confidence - Credulity - True Faith - Misery of Doubt 295 CHAPTER XXIV . THE GOOD NEWS . Clergymen - Dreadful Xiv CONTENTS .
... Society - Sweet Simplicity -Little Actions - Anxiety - Distrust - Broken Friendships — A Boy's Confidence - Credulity - True Faith - Misery of Doubt 295 CHAPTER XXIV . THE GOOD NEWS . Clergymen - Dreadful Xiv CONTENTS .
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... surpass others ; and although women , from their greater subjection to society , are less offensive in their egotism , it is said they are as bad . We must do them this justice , that they conceal it better ; 6 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
... surpass others ; and although women , from their greater subjection to society , are less offensive in their egotism , it is said they are as bad . We must do them this justice , that they conceal it better ; 6 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
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... society that can correct them . Our education is not finished when we leave school , and our whippings should not end there . For this end satire has been re- sorted to ; but in the public press and society in general there is a great ...
... society that can correct them . Our education is not finished when we leave school , and our whippings should not end there . For this end satire has been re- sorted to ; but in the public press and society in general there is a great ...
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... Society called by the holy name of Jesus should be a good man ; one whose conscience is so tender that he debates every little point about his actions , should be good too . But the world , especially the Protestant world , has found ...
... Society called by the holy name of Jesus should be a good man ; one whose conscience is so tender that he debates every little point about his actions , should be good too . But the world , especially the Protestant world , has found ...
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... society he scorned . The wisest way in the conduct of life is to know what Man is , and to endeavour to improve ourselves by the lesson . That is the shortest way to attain self - culture ; for culture does not consist in learning ...
... society he scorned . The wisest way in the conduct of life is to know what Man is , and to endeavour to improve ourselves by the lesson . That is the shortest way to attain self - culture ; for culture does not consist in learning ...
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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.