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... wrong . Gessner says that it may be derived from con , together with , and scire , to know ; so that you at once know what you have done . Others put it as derived from scientia communis , the common or general in - dwelling knowledge ...
... wrong . Gessner says that it may be derived from con , together with , and scire , to know ; so that you at once know what you have done . Others put it as derived from scientia communis , the common or general in - dwelling knowledge ...
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... wrong are the very people to go wrong . So also even Catholic sovereigns , and the Popes themselves , have found that the Jesuits are not wholly worthy of the blessed name that they have assumed . The truth is , if we begin to quarrel ...
... wrong are the very people to go wrong . So also even Catholic sovereigns , and the Popes themselves , have found that the Jesuits are not wholly worthy of the blessed name that they have assumed . The truth is , if we begin to quarrel ...
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... wrong ; he is always with us . I cannot escape him ; I carry him with me wherever I go , because it is ' I. ' Finally , a modern poet tells us that we take this vicar of God with us into judgment , and that it alone condemns us . He ...
... wrong ; he is always with us . I cannot escape him ; I carry him with me wherever I go , because it is ' I. ' Finally , a modern poet tells us that we take this vicar of God with us into judgment , and that it alone condemns us . He ...
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... wrong ; and he , perceiving this , did not worship the gods with external show so much as others did , but sought chiefly to obey the lead of this guide , which he did not hesitate to say he always found right . Even when in prison ...
... wrong ; and he , perceiving this , did not worship the gods with external show so much as others did , but sought chiefly to obey the lead of this guide , which he did not hesitate to say he always found right . Even when in prison ...
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... 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 conclusion that we have a ...
... 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 conclusion that we have a ...
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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.