Essays: Moral, Political and AestheticD. Appleton, 1868 - 418 páginas |
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... continue the parallel . Emerson has employed it with great effect in the first of his " Lectures on the Times " : " The main interest which any aspects of the Times can have for us , is the great spirit which gazes through them , the ...
... continue the parallel . Emerson has employed it with great effect in the first of his " Lectures on the Times " : " The main interest which any aspects of the Times can have for us , is the great spirit which gazes through them , the ...
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... Continuing his self - criticism , the cautious thinker may reason : - " If in these personal transactions , where all the conditions of the case were known to me , I have so often miscalculated , how much oftener shall I miscalculate in ...
... Continuing his self - criticism , the cautious thinker may reason : - " If in these personal transactions , where all the conditions of the case were known to me , I have so often miscalculated , how much oftener shall I miscalculate in ...
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... continue after duty wholly ceases ; become rich prizes for the idle well born ; and prompt to perjury , to bribery , to simony . East India directors are elected not for any administrative capacity they may have ; but they buy votes by ...
... continue after duty wholly ceases ; become rich prizes for the idle well born ; and prompt to perjury , to bribery , to simony . East India directors are elected not for any administrative capacity they may have ; but they buy votes by ...
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... continue in all their grossness . Not only do these legal instrumentalities resist reforms in themselves , but they hinder reforms in other things . In defending their vested interests , the clergy delay the closing of town burial ...
... continue in all their grossness . Not only do these legal instrumentalities resist reforms in themselves , but they hinder reforms in other things . In defending their vested interests , the clergy delay the closing of town burial ...
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... continue if there be no need . Daily are new trades and new companies established . If they subserve some existing public want , they take root and grow . If they do not , they die of inanition . It needs no agitation , no act of ...
... continue if there be no need . Daily are new trades and new companies established . If they subserve some existing public want , they take root and grow . If they do not , they die of inanition . It needs no agitation , no act of ...
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