Essays on Social Subjects: From the Saturday ReviewW. Blackwood and Sons, 1864 - 305 sider |
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From the Saturday Review. CONTENTS . BUSY . PEOPLE , SNUBBING , IGNORANCE , FOOLISH THINGS , FALSE SHAME , FLUENCY , CONTEMPT , DULNESS AS A SENSATION ,. MISTAKES IN LIFE , . PAGE 1 11 20 30 39 48 58 69 79 89 99 ཌ ཙཱུ རྒྱ རྨི $ £ ཆེ ེ ...
From the Saturday Review. CONTENTS . BUSY . PEOPLE , SNUBBING , IGNORANCE , FOOLISH THINGS , FALSE SHAME , FLUENCY , CONTEMPT , DULNESS AS A SENSATION ,. MISTAKES IN LIFE , . PAGE 1 11 20 30 39 48 58 69 79 89 99 ཌ ཙཱུ རྒྱ རྨི $ £ ཆེ ེ ...
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... an age of new sciences and perpetual discoveries , it is a comfort to be reminded that a wise man must , after all , be content to be ignorant of many things . FOOLISH THINGS . THE subject of folly is a wide IGNORANCE . 29.
... an age of new sciences and perpetual discoveries , it is a comfort to be reminded that a wise man must , after all , be content to be ignorant of many things . FOOLISH THINGS . THE subject of folly is a wide IGNORANCE . 29.
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... foolish things we have here set our- selves to speak of are not attractive . They furnish food for anything rather than amused supercilious analysis . Are there any of our readers who never in their own persons say or do foolish things ...
... foolish things we have here set our- selves to speak of are not attractive . They furnish food for anything rather than amused supercilious analysis . Are there any of our readers who never in their own persons say or do foolish things ...
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... unwarrantable famili- arity , which under excitement seemed , and very likely was , perfectly natural . We are advised to sleep upon certain designs , but it means really to wake upon them . Nothing is more FOOLISH THINGS . 31.
... unwarrantable famili- arity , which under excitement seemed , and very likely was , perfectly natural . We are advised to sleep upon certain designs , but it means really to wake upon them . Nothing is more FOOLISH THINGS . 31.
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... 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 , exacting , unrelenting , 32 FOOLISH THINGS .
... 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 , exacting , unrelenting , 32 FOOLISH THINGS .
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