Essays on Social Subjects: From the Saturday ReviewW. Blackwood and Sons, 1864 - 305 sider |
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... mind pretty exclusively upon it - the power of magnifying itself . Very few people indeed can embrace the idea that they are of no use ; even their existence implies to most people the necessity for their existence ; but the busy man ...
... mind pretty exclusively upon it - the power of magnifying itself . Very few people indeed can embrace the idea that they are of no use ; even their existence implies to most people the necessity for their existence ; but the busy man ...
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... 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 him out from a whole range of good and happy influences ; and this not ...
... 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 him out from a whole range of good and happy influences ; and this not ...
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... mind , connect undying associations with his name , haunt innumerable memories , make himself a household word , point a moral , and become a standing illustration ? How may he get himself thought of and talked of most lastingly and ...
... mind , connect undying associations with his name , haunt innumerable memories , make himself a household word , point a moral , and become a standing illustration ? How may he get himself thought of and talked of most lastingly and ...
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... mind its own business - makes comparatively small account of more serious censure , and indulges in a playful nomenclature for the graver forms of reproof . How does it give more pain than many a heavy rebuke from quarters whose ...
... mind its own business - makes comparatively small account of more serious censure , and indulges in a playful nomenclature for the graver forms of reproof . How does it give more pain than many a heavy rebuke from quarters whose ...
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... mind . Our friend is in a hurry to tell us that our judgment is worth nothing , that our expression of it must be ... minds - men without deference , who are accustomed to lean upon themselves , who do not expect to find much in other ...
... mind . Our friend is in a hurry to tell us that our judgment is worth nothing , that our expression of it must be ... minds - men without deference , who are accustomed to lean upon themselves , who do not expect to find much in other ...
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