Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 74
... writing , thinking American , with a watch , a pencil , and a bill of exchange in his pocket , and the naked New Zealander , whose prop- erty is a club , a spear , a mat , and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under ! But ...
... writing , thinking American , with a watch , a pencil , and a bill of exchange in his pocket , and the naked New Zealander , whose prop- erty is a club , a spear , a mat , and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under ! But ...
Page 83
... write a discourse on Compensation : for it seemed to me when very young , that on this subject life was ahead of theology , and the people knew more than the preachers taught . The documents , too , from which the doctrine is to be ...
... write a discourse on Compensation : for it seemed to me when very young , that on this subject life was ahead of theology , and the people knew more than the preachers taught . The documents , too , from which the doctrine is to be ...
Page 89
... writes the laws of cities and nations . It is in vain to build or plot or combine against it . Things refuse to be mismanaged long . Res nolunt diu male administrari . Though no checks to a new evil appear , the checks exist , and will ...
... writes the laws of cities and nations . It is in vain to build or plot or combine against it . Things refuse to be mismanaged long . Res nolunt diu male administrari . Though no checks to a new evil appear , the checks exist , and will ...
Page 96
... writer . That is the best part of each writer , which has noth- ing private in it ; that which he does not 96 ESSAY III .
... writer . That is the best part of each writer , which has noth- ing private in it ; that which he does not 96 ESSAY III .
Page 133
... writes . What can we see or acquire , but what we are ? You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil . Well , that author is a thousand books to a thousand persons . Take the book into your two hands , and read your eyes out ; you ...
... writes . What can we see or acquire , but what we are ? You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil . Well , that author is a thousand books to a thousand persons . Take the book into your two hands , and read your eyes out ; you ...
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