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... manner , the love of fame , or a strong sense of duty , may com- pensate for original defects , or may lay the foundation of uncommon attainments . The intellectual powers , too , may be variously modified by the habits arising from ...
... manner , the love of fame , or a strong sense of duty , may com- pensate for original defects , or may lay the foundation of uncommon attainments . The intellectual powers , too , may be variously modified by the habits arising from ...
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... manner of man he was . " The human being is mightily given to assimilation , and , from the sto- ries which any one relates with spirit , from the general tenor of his conver sation , and from the books or associates to which he most ...
... manner of man he was . " The human being is mightily given to assimilation , and , from the sto- ries which any one relates with spirit , from the general tenor of his conver sation , and from the books or associates to which he most ...
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... manner as to satisfy itself concerning every particular difficulty that may arise . When I am at a loss to know the effects of one body upon another in any sit- uation , I need only put them in that situation , and ob- serve what ...
... manner as to satisfy itself concerning every particular difficulty that may arise . When I am at a loss to know the effects of one body upon another in any sit- uation , I need only put them in that situation , and ob- serve what ...
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... manner as the windings of a road make a more lasting impression on the mind when we have once trav- elled it alone , and inquired out the way at every turn , than if we had travelled along it a hundred times trust- ing ourselves ...
... manner as the windings of a road make a more lasting impression on the mind when we have once trav- elled it alone , and inquired out the way at every turn , than if we had travelled along it a hundred times trust- ing ourselves ...
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... manner , a mutual attachment . When further advanced , children who are strangers to each other , though their social appetite be equally strong , discover a mutual shyness of approach , which , however , is soon conquered by the more ...
... manner , a mutual attachment . When further advanced , children who are strangers to each other , though their social appetite be equally strong , discover a mutual shyness of approach , which , however , is soon conquered by the more ...
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Page 51 - Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Page 226 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene, With half that kindling majesty, dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of...
Page 25 - Heav'n forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, 'Till one Man's weakness grows the strength of all.
Page 141 - Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury...
Page 397 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, 'Nunc dimittis' when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 240 - ... nee erit alia lex Romae, alia Athenis, alia nunc, alia posthac, sed et omnes gentes et omni tempore una lex et sempiterna et immutabilis continebit...
Page 206 - Thus the distinct boundaries and offices of reason and of taste are easily ascertained. The former conveys the knowledge of truth and falsehood: The latter gives the sentiment of beauty and deformity, vice and virtue. The one discovers objects, as they really stand in nature, without addition or diminution: The other has a productive faculty, and gilding or staining all natural objects with the colours, borrowed from internal sentiment, raises, in a manner, a new creation.
Page 116 - I will omit much usual declamation on the dignity and capacity of our nature ; the superiority of the soul to the body, of the rational to the animal part of our constitution ; upon the worthiness, refinement, and delicacy of some satisfactions, or the meanness, grossness, and sensuality of others ; because I hold that pleasures differ in nothing but in continuance and intensity...
Page 299 - In the words of the sect which in our own day has most perseveringly inculcated and most perversely misunderstood this great doctrine, his character is formed for him, and not by him ; therefore his wishing that it had been formed differently is of no use ; he has no power to alter it. But this is a grand error. He has, to a certain extent, a power to alter his character. Its being, in the ultimate resort, formed for him, is not inconsistent with its being, in part, formed by him as one of the intermediate...
Page 107 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.