Essays on Social Subjects: From the Saturday ReviewW. Blackwood and Sons, 1864 - 305 sider |
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... examples that first occur come from con- temptuous minds - men without deference , who are accustomed to lean upon themselves , who do not expect to find much in other people . We do not find them appealing to others , or wishing to ...
... examples that first occur come from con- temptuous minds - men without deference , who are accustomed to lean upon themselves , who do not expect to find much in other people . We do not find them appealing to others , or wishing to ...
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... examples do not crowd upon us . We could fill columns with them - the collegiate , the social , the domestic - all of them very much to the purpose , and some very amusing ; but , as we have said , these are just the things people never ...
... examples do not crowd upon us . We could fill columns with them - the collegiate , the social , the domestic - all of them very much to the purpose , and some very amusing ; but , as we have said , these are just the things people never ...
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... example of that lusus naturæ , the thoroughly well - informed man , show him- self ! He takes for granted , not in hypocrisy , but through mere genial good - nature and desire for sym- pathy , some share of his own gifts in every one he ...
... example of that lusus naturæ , the thoroughly well - informed man , show him- self ! He takes for granted , not in hypocrisy , but through mere genial good - nature and desire for sym- pathy , some share of his own gifts in every one he ...
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... example of false shame that occurs to us in his writings , Sir Piercie Shafton , a not unnatural sensitiveness is rendered extremely ridicu- lous . Modern writers enter into the sensation analyti- 4 cally , as they do into other complex ...
... example of false shame that occurs to us in his writings , Sir Piercie Shafton , a not unnatural sensitiveness is rendered extremely ridicu- lous . Modern writers enter into the sensation analyti- 4 cally , as they do into other complex ...
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... examples , because such contemners can give a poignancy and force to the expression of their sentiments . We think of Gray pronouncing his own University , where he chose to spend his days , " a joy of wild asses " —or of Johnson , in ...
... examples , because such contemners can give a poignancy and force to the expression of their sentiments . We think of Gray pronouncing his own University , where he chose to spend his days , " a joy of wild asses " —or of Johnson , in ...
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