Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar EssaysC. Scribner, 1861 - 344 pages |
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... regard it with contempt or aversion , does she treat it with peculiar tenderness ; as if she were com- missioned by God - as indeed she is to make up to it in the best coinage that which the world will certainly neglect to bestow . With ...
... regard it with contempt or aversion , does she treat it with peculiar tenderness ; as if she were com- missioned by God - as indeed she is to make up to it in the best coinage that which the world will certainly neglect to bestow . With ...
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... regard which we all entertain for the simple animal content and joy of childhood , is a very different thing to this . It was Mr. Neal's loafer that really wished he were a pig ; and it is a loafer always who would retire from man's ...
... regard which we all entertain for the simple animal content and joy of childhood , is a very different thing to this . It was Mr. Neal's loafer that really wished he were a pig ; and it is a loafer always who would retire from man's ...
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... regard to such instances , when , really , they are not wonderful at all . When children are unusually bad , parents are unusually bad , or , if they are not bad - hearted , they are wrong - headed . I ought , perhaps , to say here that ...
... regard to such instances , when , really , they are not wonderful at all . When children are unusually bad , parents are unusually bad , or , if they are not bad - hearted , they are wrong - headed . I ought , perhaps , to say here that ...
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... regard him as such . He becomes to me a very ordinary and vulgar sort of man indeed ; but if he give me my office , then , though he may be all that his enemies think him , he seems to me to be invested with a singular nobility of ...
... regard him as such . He becomes to me a very ordinary and vulgar sort of man indeed ; but if he give me my office , then , though he may be all that his enemies think him , he seems to me to be invested with a singular nobility of ...
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... regard for the popular good ? Of course I speak generally . There are politicians and presses that are above personal considerations ; but even these become infected with the prevalent poison of falsehood that is everywhere associated ...
... regard for the popular good ? Of course I speak generally . There are politicians and presses that are above personal considerations ; but even these become infected with the prevalent poison of falsehood that is everywhere associated ...
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Page 16 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 190 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 23 - Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up...
Page 313 - My stubborn right abide ; I set a plain man's common sense Against the pedant's pride. To-day shall simple manhood try The strength of gold and land ; The wide world has not wealth to buy The power in my right hand...
Page 7 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul...
Page 175 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 248 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 234 - For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears along, Round the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right or wrong ; Whether conscious or unconscious, yet Humanity's vast frame Through its ocean.sundered fibres feels the gush of joy or shame ; — In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
Page 234 - Tis the finest sense Of justice which the human mind can frame, Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim, And guard the way of life from all offence Suffered or done.
Page 209 - It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.