Essays on Social Subjects: From the Saturday ReviewW. Blackwood and Sons, 1864 - 305 sider |
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... present theme , which is that ignorance of which some of us - how many of us ! -are conscious , and which is anything but pleasant . We speak of the ignorance of which we make no parade , which is dragged from us against our will , or ...
... present theme , which is that ignorance of which some of us - how many of us ! -are conscious , and which is anything but pleasant . We speak of the ignorance of which we make no parade , which is dragged from us against our will , or ...
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... present engage our attention , for which we assume the sympathy of fellow- feeling , and reckon on touching an answering chord in other breasts not a few . We are not speaking now of grave errors and mistakes , but of the inadvertencies ...
... present engage our attention , for which we assume the sympathy of fellow- feeling , and reckon on touching an answering chord in other breasts not a few . We are not speaking now of grave errors and mistakes , but of the inadvertencies ...
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... present experience will preserve us from all future recurrence of even the tendency and temptation to do foolish things . We own this to be cowardly . It is fortunate that we cannot mould ourselves on the model of these morbid regrets ...
... present experience will preserve us from all future recurrence of even the tendency and temptation to do foolish things . We own this to be cowardly . It is fortunate that we cannot mould ourselves on the model of these morbid regrets ...
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... present company is the world , the universe , a convention of men and gods , all forming a deliberate and irreversible judgment upon them , and deciding to their disadvantage on account of some oddness , or awkwardness , or passing slip ...
... present company is the world , the universe , a convention of men and gods , all forming a deliberate and irreversible judgment upon them , and deciding to their disadvantage on account of some oddness , or awkwardness , or passing slip ...
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... to test our friends too hardly , nor to expose them to the minor miseries and real dangers of this mood by anything in ourselves that may be rightly avoided . FLUENCY . THE present system of bringing different classes into FALSE SHAME . 47.
... to test our friends too hardly , nor to expose them to the minor miseries and real dangers of this mood by anything in ourselves that may be rightly avoided . FLUENCY . THE present system of bringing different classes into FALSE SHAME . 47.
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Essays on Social Subjects from the Saturday Review: Second Series Anne Mozley Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1865 |
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acquaintances action Adam Bede ALEXANDER KEITH JOHNSTON amused attention Author character Charles Lamb choice cloth conscious constancy contempt course Crown 8vo DAVID PAGE disagreeable things doubt Dr Johnson dull dulness Engravings experience expression eyes fact false shame Fcap feeling folly fool foolish friends friendship GEORGE ELIOT give habit heart History hugger-mugger human idea ignorance indulge influence instinct intercourse interest JOHN GALT JOHN HILL BURTON JOHN TULLOCH judgment labour live look means memory ment mind mistakes moral motives nature never notion ourselves pain perhaps persons pleasure prejudices Professor qualities realise reason recognise reserve SAMUEL WARREN scenes Scotland SCOTT BURN Second Edition sense shirk SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON snub social society sort spirit stand sure sympathy talk taste tell temper THOMAS AIRD thought tion truth vanity vols weak wise words
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Side 132 - If you would work any man, you must either know his nature and fashions, and so lead him; or his ends, and so persuade him; or his weakness and disadvantages, and so awe him; or those that have interest in him, and so govern him.
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Side 131 - See the same man, in vigour, in the gout ; Alone, in company ; in place, or out ; Early at business, and at hazard late ; Mad at a fox-chase, wise at a debate ; Drunk at a borough, civil at a ball ; Friendly at Hackney, faithless at Whitehall.