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... Tell B that A has really a natural antipathy to him , and thinks him odious ; and he says , ' Hate me ! Come , hang it , now , that is too absurd . ' Every man believes in his personal influence . The busi- SELF - EXAMINATION . 15.
... Tell B that A has really a natural antipathy to him , and thinks him odious ; and he says , ' Hate me ! Come , hang it , now , that is too absurd . ' Every man believes in his personal influence . The busi- SELF - EXAMINATION . 15.
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... tell us whether we be right or wrong . Let us satisfy that , and we shall be happy . ' Cicero also speaks of having a conscious inner feeling , and being guided by it . Our latest writer on this subject leads us irresistibly to the ...
... tell us whether we be right or wrong . Let us satisfy that , and we shall be happy . ' Cicero also speaks of having a conscious inner feeling , and being guided by it . Our latest writer on this subject leads us irresistibly to the ...
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... tell it to any human being , dug a hole in the ground and whispered it therein ; but from the earth , thus fertilised , there grew a crop of reeds , which nightly whispered to the Summer wind , ' Midas has asses ' ears ! ' Such was the ...
... tell it to any human being , dug a hole in the ground and whispered it therein ; but from the earth , thus fertilised , there grew a crop of reeds , which nightly whispered to the Summer wind , ' Midas has asses ' ears ! ' Such was the ...
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... tell of some dreadful and secret sin ; the pious father , of some unholy plot for pleasure or for gain ; the chaste and excelling matron , beloved , admired , wondered at for her goodness , of some folly or some crime , we may well ...
... tell of some dreadful and secret sin ; the pious father , of some unholy plot for pleasure or for gain ; the chaste and excelling matron , beloved , admired , wondered at for her goodness , of some folly or some crime , we may well ...
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... tell us that , after all , what is right is best . A knowledge of physi- ology will assure us , without the shadow of a doubt , that as a rule , riches , state , and position are but gilded sorrows , and that poverty - comparative ...
... tell us that , after all , what is right is best . A knowledge of physi- ology will assure us , without the shadow of a doubt , that as a rule , riches , state , and position are but gilded sorrows , and that poverty - comparative ...
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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.