Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 51
... Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock company , in which the mem- bers agree , for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder , to surrender the ...
... Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock company , in which the mem- bers agree , for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder , to surrender the ...
Page 52
... societies and dead institutions . Every decent and well - spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right . I ought to go upright and vital , and speak the rude truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of phi ...
... societies and dead institutions . Every decent and well - spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right . I ought to go upright and vital , and speak the rude truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of phi ...
Page 54
... Societies ; though I confess with shame I some- times succumb and give the dollar , it is a wicked dollar , which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold . - Virtues are , in the popular estimate , rather the exception than the ...
... Societies ; though I confess with shame I some- times succumb and give the dollar , it is a wicked dollar , which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold . - Virtues are , in the popular estimate , rather the exception than the ...
Page 55
... society , vote with a great party either for the government or against it , spread your table like base housekeepers , under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are and of course so much force is withdrawn ...
... society , vote with a great party either for the government or against it , spread your table like base housekeepers , under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are and of course so much force is withdrawn ...
Page 57
... society is made to growl and mow , it needs the habit of mag- nanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment . The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act ...
... society is made to growl and mow , it needs the habit of mag- nanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment . The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act ...
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