EssaysLittle Leather Library Corporation, 1910 - 96 pages |
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Page 43
... society . All men plume themselves on the improvement of society , and no man improves . • Society never advances . It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other . Its progress is only apparent like the workers of a treadmill ...
... society . All men plume themselves on the improvement of society , and no man improves . • Society never advances . It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other . Its progress is only apparent like the workers of a treadmill ...
Page 87
... Society will par- don much to genius and special gifts , but , being in its nature a convention , it loves what is conventional , or what belongs to coming together . That makes the good and bad of manners , namely , what helps or ...
... Society will par- don much to genius and special gifts , but , being in its nature a convention , it loves what is conventional , or what belongs to coming together . That makes the good and bad of manners , namely , what helps or ...
Page 88
... society demands in its patrician class , another element already inti- mated , which it significantly terms good - nature , ex- pressing all degrees of generosity , from the lowest willingness and faculty to oblige , up to the heights ...
... society demands in its patrician class , another element already inti- mated , which it significantly terms good - nature , ex- pressing all degrees of generosity , from the lowest willingness and faculty to oblige , up to the heights ...
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action appear beauty behold better Bonduca Cæsar CALIFORNIA character circumstance conversation debt of honor distinction society divine earth Epaminondas ERSITY eternal Eumenides fact fancy fashion fear feel flower force friendship genius gifts give hand heart heaven hero heroic honor hour human intellect Last Judgment leave light ligion live look lose lover lumbus man's marriage Mencius ment mind moral Napoleon nature ness never noble object Parliament of Love pass perfect persons Phidias Phocion Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet present prudence relations rich SAN DIEGO secret seems sense sentiment society Sophocles soul speak spirit stand stars stoicism sweet sympathy talent temper thee things thou thought tion tism to-day true truth UNIVERSITY virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words Zoroaster