Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 84
... mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life ? Was it that houses and lands , offices , wine , horses , dress , luxury , are had by unprincipled men , whilst the saints are poor and despised ; and that a compensation ...
... mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life ? Was it that houses and lands , offices , wine , horses , dress , luxury , are had by unprincipled men , whilst the saints are poor and despised ; and that a compensation ...
Page 92
... means and ends , seed and fruit , cannot be severed ; for the effect already blooms in the cause , the end preëxists in the means , the fruit in the seed . - Whilst thus the world will be whole , and refuses to be disparted , we seek to ...
... means and ends , seed and fruit , cannot be severed ; for the effect already blooms in the cause , the end preëxists in the means , the fruit in the seed . - Whilst thus the world will be whole , and refuses to be disparted , we seek to ...
Page 127
... mean , let him by his thinking and character make it liberal . Whatever he knows and thinks , whatever in his apprehension is worth doing , that let him communicate , or men will never know and honor him aright . Foolish , whenever you ...
... mean , let him by his thinking and character make it liberal . Whatever he knows and thinks , whatever in his apprehension is worth doing , that let him communicate , or men will never know and honor him aright . Foolish , whenever you ...
Page 142
... his good impression . Men know not why they do not trust him ; but they do not trust him . His vice glasses his eye , cuts lines of mean expression in his cheek , pinches the nose , sets the mark of the beast on the back of 142 ESSAY IV .
... his good impression . Men know not why they do not trust him ; but they do not trust him . His vice glasses his eye , cuts lines of mean expression in his cheek , pinches the nose , sets the mark of the beast on the back of 142 ESSAY IV .
Page 183
... mean and cowardly . I should hate myself , if then I made my other friends my asylum . " The valiant warrior famoused for fight , After a hundred victories , once foiled , Is from the book of honor razed quite , And all the rest forgot ...
... mean and cowardly . I should hate myself , if then I made my other friends my asylum . " The valiant warrior famoused for fight , After a hundred victories , once foiled , Is from the book of honor razed quite , And all the rest forgot ...
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