The Map of Life, Conduct and CharacterLongmans, Green, 1899 - 328 pages |
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... English character . Sensational philosophies and industrial and progressive nations seek it chiefly in improved circumstances . Action of the body on happiness Influence of predispositions in reasonings on life . 8 84 10 11 Promotion of ...
... English character . Sensational philosophies and industrial and progressive nations seek it chiefly in improved circumstances . Action of the body on happiness Influence of predispositions in reasonings on life . 8 84 10 11 Promotion of ...
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... English gentleman 247 Different ways of treating temptation . 248 CHAPTER XIII MONEY Henry Taylor on its relation to character 250 Difference between real and professed beliefs about money 250 • Lives of the millionaires . Leaders of ...
... English gentleman 247 Different ways of treating temptation . 248 CHAPTER XIII MONEY Henry Taylor on its relation to character 250 Difference between real and professed beliefs about money 250 • Lives of the millionaires . Leaders of ...
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... English character on both sides of the Atlantic is an eminently objective one - a character in which thoughts ... English life with life even in the continental nations which occupy Active and Moral Powers , ii . 312 . ENGLISH IDEALS the ...
... English character on both sides of the Atlantic is an eminently objective one - a character in which thoughts ... English life with life even in the continental nations which occupy Active and Moral Powers , ii . 312 . ENGLISH IDEALS the ...
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... English tendency is to turn away speedily from the past , and to seek consolation in new fields of activity . Emotions translate themselves speedily into action , and they lose something of their intensity by the transforma- tion ...
... English tendency is to turn away speedily from the past , and to seek consolation in new fields of activity . Emotions translate themselves speedily into action , and they lose something of their intensity by the transforma- tion ...
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... English race are submitting great departments of their lives to a web of regulations restricting and encircling them . Each in- dividual case must be considered on its merits , and few persons will now deny that the right of adult men ...
... English race are submitting great departments of their lives to a web of regulations restricting and encircling them . Each in- dividual case must be considered on its merits , and few persons will now deny that the right of adult men ...
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Page 307 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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