EssaysLittle Leather Library Corporation, 1910 - 96 pages |
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Page 70
... sense to a common want . It is best to pay in your land a skilful gardener , or to buy good sense applied to gardening ; in your sailor , good sense applied to navigation ; in the house , good sense applied to cooking , sewing , serv ...
... sense to a common want . It is best to pay in your land a skilful gardener , or to buy good sense applied to gardening ; in your sailor , good sense applied to navigation ; in the house , good sense applied to cooking , sewing , serv ...
Page 179
... sense , On him who scorned the world , as he said , the scorned world wreaks its revenge . He that de- spiseth small things will perish by little and little . Goethe's Tasso is very likely to be a pretty fair his- torical portrait , and ...
... sense , On him who scorned the world , as he said , the scorned world wreaks its revenge . He that de- spiseth small things will perish by little and little . Goethe's Tasso is very likely to be a pretty fair his- torical portrait , and ...
Page 87
... sense private , but good sense entertaining company . It hates corners and sharp points of character , hates quarrelsome , egotistical , solitary , and gloomy people ; hates what- ever can interfere with total blending of parties ...
... sense private , but good sense entertaining company . It hates corners and sharp points of character , hates quarrelsome , egotistical , solitary , and gloomy people ; hates what- ever can interfere with total blending of parties ...
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