Essays on Social Subjects: From the Saturday ReviewW. Blackwood and Sons, 1864 - 305 sider |
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... weak points . And there is this to be said — that contempt , of all things the hardest to bear , is , if we go to the bottom of it , the motive force of most snubs . The practice is certainly incompatible with a respectful habit of mind ...
... weak points . And there is this to be said — that contempt , of all things the hardest to bear , is , if we go to the bottom of it , the motive force of most snubs . The practice is certainly incompatible with a respectful habit of mind ...
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... weak reliance on sympathy . In the young , the fear of presumption is a fruitful yet innocent source of these stings of memory . Young people are sometimes made uneasy for days from the notion of having committed some unwarrantable ...
... weak reliance on sympathy . In the young , the fear of presumption is a fruitful yet innocent source of these stings of memory . Young people are sometimes made uneasy for days from the notion of having committed some unwarrantable ...
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... weak place there is in the best of us . When our wise friend , under some malignant influence , says or does something exceptionally silly , the thing assumes a sort of life from contrast . It is quoted against him , and perhaps in some ...
... weak place there is in the best of us . When our wise friend , under some malignant influence , says or does something exceptionally silly , the thing assumes a sort of life from contrast . It is quoted against him , and perhaps in some ...
Side 35
... weak , vain , irritable , boasting humanity , it ought to conduce to charity in our judgments . If we could believe that the people we dislike suffer these penances , and could give them credit for waking with a twinge an hour earlier ...
... weak , vain , irritable , boasting humanity , it ought to conduce to charity in our judgments . If we could believe that the people we dislike suffer these penances , and could give them credit for waking with a twinge an hour earlier ...
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... weakness . By the time youth is over , they have either accepted their position or set about in a businesslike way to mend it . But there are some people who never get over this disorder of the faculties — who are always its victims ...
... weakness . By the time youth is over , they have either accepted their position or set about in a businesslike way to mend it . But there are some people who never get over this disorder of the faculties — who are always its victims ...
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