Essays on Social Subjects: From the Saturday ReviewW. Blackwood and Sons, 1864 - 305 sider |
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... brings us to our real ground of quarrel with the over - busy habit of mind , which is , that it not only spoils a man for society , but stops all real progress and cultivation of his own mind . It imprisons him in himself , and shuts ...
... brings us to our real ground of quarrel with the over - busy habit of mind , which is , that it not only spoils a man for society , but stops all real progress and cultivation of his own mind . It imprisons him in himself , and shuts ...
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... bringing all intercourse to an end . All histo- rical conversations professing to have actually taken place from Canute's reproof to his courtiers to the " Sir , you don't know the poor figure you make , " quoted by Macaulay - foster ...
... bringing all intercourse to an end . All histo- rical conversations professing to have actually taken place from Canute's reproof to his courtiers to the " Sir , you don't know the poor figure you make , " quoted by Macaulay - foster ...
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... bring to light . For , though never wholly got rid of , it is on the hope and sensitiveness of youth that this pain presses most sorely . In those in- genuous days when the memory still tingles with exa- minations , when we have not ...
... bring to light . For , though never wholly got rid of , it is on the hope and sensitiveness of youth that this pain presses most sorely . In those in- genuous days when the memory still tingles with exa- minations , when we have not ...
Side 23
... brings with it a sense of disgrace amounting to dishonour . He has missed a very poi- gnant and memorable sensation who has never blushed in secret at some hideous lapse , nor for its sake desired to hide his head from the accusing ...
... brings with it a sense of disgrace amounting to dishonour . He has missed a very poi- gnant and memorable sensation who has never blushed in secret at some hideous lapse , nor for its sake desired to hide his head from the accusing ...
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... brings us to grief . There is a certain determined devotion to the matter in hand- a resolution , come what may , to carry a thing through- which is better than caution , though by no means a C subject for self - congratulation at five ...
... brings us to grief . There is a certain determined devotion to the matter in hand- a resolution , come what may , to carry a thing through- which is better than caution , though by no means a C subject for self - congratulation at five ...
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