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... SPEAKING . A Courtier's Truth - Shade - Love Me , Love My Dog - Alcibiades -Raleigh's Remains - The Worth of Traitors - Flattery - A Pre- vailing Weakness - Whole Nations Misled - Peppering the People -Judicious Praise . CHAPTER XXII ...
... SPEAKING . A Courtier's Truth - Shade - Love Me , Love My Dog - Alcibiades -Raleigh's Remains - The Worth of Traitors - Flattery - A Pre- vailing Weakness - Whole Nations Misled - Peppering the People -Judicious Praise . CHAPTER XXII ...
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... speaking of an adept in this passion , of which their nation furnishes brilliant examples , say , ' dont je connais- sais l'égoïsme renforcé - of whose thorough selfishness I was aware . ' You see hereby that a whole nation places to ...
... speaking of an adept in this passion , of which their nation furnishes brilliant examples , say , ' dont je connais- sais l'égoïsme renforcé - of whose thorough selfishness I was aware . ' You see hereby that a whole nation places to ...
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... speak of himself : it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement , and the listener's ears to hear anything in praise from him . ' This is Cowley's dictum , and a very true one . We are all so selfish , that we suspect self ...
... speak of himself : it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement , and the listener's ears to hear anything in praise from him . ' This is Cowley's dictum , and a very true one . We are all so selfish , that we suspect self ...
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... speak as if this were so . You are rather angry if reverence is withdrawn from the word . In making your calculations about the doings of other men or of your own , is it not your maxim that this is entitled to a primary consideration ...
... speak as if this were so . You are rather angry if reverence is withdrawn from the word . In making your calculations about the doings of other men or of your own , is it not your maxim that this is entitled to a primary consideration ...
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... derived from scientia communis , the common or general in - dwelling knowledge of man . Chaucer uses the word so as to mean a soft and sweet feeling . Speaking of the Prioresse in his Prologue , he says that she felt 22 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
... derived from scientia communis , the common or general in - dwelling knowledge of man . Chaucer uses the word so as to mean a soft and sweet feeling . Speaking of the Prioresse in his Prologue , he says that she felt 22 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
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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.