Essays on Social Subjects: From the Saturday ReviewW. Blackwood and Sons, 1864 - 305 sider |
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... 79 89 99 ཌ ཙཱུ རྒྱ རྨི $ £ ཆེ ེ ® £ SCENES , ACQUAINTANCES AND FRIENDS , SAYING DISAGREEABLE THINGS , 110 ON BEING UNDERSTOOD , STUDY OF CHARACTER , PREJUDICES , . SHIRKING , CONSTANCY , RESERVE , 120 130 140 151 161 173.
... 79 89 99 ཌ ཙཱུ རྒྱ རྨི $ £ ཆེ ེ ® £ SCENES , ACQUAINTANCES AND FRIENDS , SAYING DISAGREEABLE THINGS , 110 ON BEING UNDERSTOOD , STUDY OF CHARACTER , PREJUDICES , . SHIRKING , CONSTANCY , RESERVE , 120 130 140 151 161 173.
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... disagreeable to , what we will call , their pos- sessors . Indeed , pride in knowledge might sometimes seem to have given place to pride in ignorance . We are used to hear men boast of knowing nothing on such and such a subject , of ...
... disagreeable to , what we will call , their pos- sessors . Indeed , pride in knowledge might sometimes seem to have given place to pride in ignorance . We are used to hear men boast of knowing nothing on such and such a subject , of ...
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... disagreeable things with a miraculous instinct , drag them to light , fly from subject to subject , however remote and disconnected , and hem us round with our own peccadilloes . Society in the cold dawn looks on us as a hard taskmaster ...
... disagreeable things with a miraculous instinct , drag them to light , fly from subject to subject , however remote and disconnected , and hem us round with our own peccadilloes . Society in the cold dawn looks on us as a hard taskmaster ...
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... disagreeable things are not , when the time comes , as disagreeable as we expected . There is a hardened class of self - seekers who override all considerations to attain their end , to gratify a low ambition , and get on in the world ...
... disagreeable things are not , when the time comes , as disagreeable as we expected . There is a hardened class of self - seekers who override all considerations to attain their end , to gratify a low ambition , and get on in the world ...
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... disagreeable to dwell for long exclusively on our own follies . The mind . irresistibly seeks for partners in a scrape , and men are so bound up in one another that it can always find them . It is certain that people apt with the ...
... disagreeable to dwell for long exclusively on our own follies . The mind . irresistibly seeks for partners in a scrape , and men are so bound up in one another that it can always find them . It is certain that people apt with the ...
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