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The Spirit Messenger: A Semi-monthly Magazine Devoted to Spiritual Science ... - Page 178
1850
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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful 1 There is no place where you can hide...
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An English Grammar: For the Use of High School, Academy, and College Classes

William Malone Baskervill, James Witt Sewell - 1895 - 358 pages
...water was first brought in barrels drawn by horses, till some officer came and opened the fire plug. 9. The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that...from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it. (3) Find sentences with five verbs in the active and five in the passive voice. MOOD. 213. The word...
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Discourses in America

Matthew Arnold - 1896 - 238 pages
...has a call of the power to do something unique." Exclusiveness is deadly. 'The exclusive in social life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment...religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on i himself in striving to shut out others. Treat men as pawns and ninepins, and you shall suffer as...
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Sun and Shield: A Book of Devout Thoughts for Every-day Use

Gustav Gottheil - 1896 - 504 pages
...of an Eastern Sage, the mantle of chosroes were offered thee in its stead. RICHARD CH. TRENCH. yft No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him. The stag in the fable admired his horns and blamed his feet, but when the hunter came, his feet saved...
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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

1896 - 374 pages
...and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful 1 There is no place where you can hide...
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The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from ..., Volume 15

Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 pages
...power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing. The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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THE AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

PROFESSOR DANIEL LYONS - 1899 - 552 pages
...politicians in the time of Charles II. favorable to a bill to exclude his popish heirs from the throne. " The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that...from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it. The ея-clusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself, in striving to...
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Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing.' The good are befriended even by weakness and defect . As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature ..., Volume 23

Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 440 pages
...power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing. The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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Don't-worry Nuggets: Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Robert ...

1899 - 136 pages
...the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed. He is great who confers the most benefits. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. Every man in his lifetime needs...
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