Essays on Social Subjects: From the Saturday ReviewW. Blackwood and Sons, 1864 - 305 páginas |
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... word " neigh- bour , " it was every man for himself and his friend , not for himself and the wide world . But the effect of this limitation rendered it impossible for any given man to have so many irons in the fire as the active ...
... word " neigh- bour , " it was every man for himself and his friend , not for himself and the wide world . But the effect of this limitation rendered it impossible for any given man to have so many irons in the fire as the active ...
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... word , point a moral , and become a standing illustration ? How may he get himself thought of and talked of most lastingly and surely ? The answer is really too obvious . Simply by cultivat- ing the art of snubbing , or , in favoured ...
... word , point a moral , and become a standing illustration ? How may he get himself thought of and talked of most lastingly and surely ? The answer is really too obvious . Simply by cultivat- ing the art of snubbing , or , in favoured ...
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... word affects to be humorous , and the wound is as- sumed to be slight , and men are not unused to plain speaking : they acquiesce in the rights of authority in others ; and youth , which is especially sensitive to snubs - which ...
... word affects to be humorous , and the wound is as- sumed to be slight , and men are not unused to plain speaking : they acquiesce in the rights of authority in others ; and youth , which is especially sensitive to snubs - which ...
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... words ought to counterbalance real services , but that they put human nature to a strain which too severely tests its weak points . And there is this to be said — that contempt , of all things the hardest to bear , is , if we go to the ...
... words ought to counterbalance real services , but that they put human nature to a strain which too severely tests its weak points . And there is this to be said — that contempt , of all things the hardest to bear , is , if we go to the ...
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... words , an imposture , fertilising neither heart nor brain ; we feel that , if it had entered into either , it would have re- mained with us ; or , being genuine knowledge , though no longer at our fingers ' ends , it may yet have done ...
... words , an imposture , fertilising neither heart nor brain ; we feel that , if it had entered into either , it would have re- mained with us ; or , being genuine knowledge , though no longer at our fingers ' ends , it may yet have done ...
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Essays on Social Subjects from the Saturday Review: Second Series Anne Mozley Visualização integral - 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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Página 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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Página 303 - When I was running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty ; but I was, at the same time, very sorry to be poor.
Página 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.