Complete Works, Volume 7Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1883 |
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Page 93
... character is very properly a loss of attraction . The preacher enu- merates his classes of men and I do not find my place therein ; I suspect then that no man does . Everything is my cousin ; and whilst he speaks things , I feel that he ...
... character is very properly a loss of attraction . The preacher enu- merates his classes of men and I do not find my place therein ; I suspect then that no man does . Everything is my cousin ; and whilst he speaks things , I feel that he ...
Page 95
... character and insight . Let him see that his speech is not differ- enced from action ; that when he has spoken he has not done nothing , nor done wrong , but has cleared his own skirts , has engaged himself to wholesome exertion . Let ...
... character and insight . Let him see that his speech is not differ- enced from action ; that when he has spoken he has not done nothing , nor done wrong , but has cleared his own skirts , has engaged himself to wholesome exertion . Let ...
Page 102
... character ; uncles , aunts , grandsires , grandams , fall an easy prey : he conforms to no- body , all conform to him ; all caper and make mouths and babble and chirrup to him . On the strongest shoulders he rides , and pulls the hair ...
... character ; uncles , aunts , grandsires , grandams , fall an easy prey : he conforms to no- body , all conform to him ; all caper and make mouths and babble and chirrup to him . On the strongest shoulders he rides , and pulls the hair ...
Page 105
... character and your nat- ural history ; who could explain your misfortunes , your fevers , your debts , your temperament , your habits of thought , your tastes , and , in every expla- nation , not sever you from the whole , but unite you ...
... character and your nat- ural history ; who could explain your misfortunes , your fevers , your debts , your temperament , your habits of thought , your tastes , and , in every expla- nation , not sever you from the whole , but unite you ...
Page 106
... econ- omy , but the genius and love of the man so conspic- uously marked in all his estate that the eye that knew him should read his character in his property , in his grounds , in his ornaments , in every 106 DOMESTIC LIFE .
... econ- omy , but the genius and love of the man so conspic- uously marked in all his estate that the eye that knew him should read his character in his property , in his grounds , in his ornaments , in every 106 DOMESTIC LIFE .
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