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... reason that he should be deprived of his chosen , harmless , nay edifying , way of life , and be committed in hoary age for a sturdy vagabond ? There was a Yorick once , whom it would not have shamed to have sat down at the cripples ...
... reason that he should be deprived of his chosen , harmless , nay edifying , way of life , and be committed in hoary age for a sturdy vagabond ? There was a Yorick once , whom it would not have shamed to have sat down at the cripples ...
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... reason should Be superexcellently good : For the worst ills ( we daily see ) Have no more perpetuity Than the best fortunes that do fall ; Which also bring us wherewithal Longer their being to support Than those do of the other sort ...
... reason should Be superexcellently good : For the worst ills ( we daily see ) Have no more perpetuity Than the best fortunes that do fall ; Which also bring us wherewithal Longer their being to support Than those do of the other sort ...
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... reason is disturbed , when reputation is sullied , when fortune is squandered , and when health is lost by it , a retreat is sounded in vain . Some cannot hear it , others will not profit by it . Steele I must do you the justice to ...
... reason is disturbed , when reputation is sullied , when fortune is squandered , and when health is lost by it , a retreat is sounded in vain . Some cannot hear it , others will not profit by it . Steele I must do you the justice to ...
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... reason well , my worthy sir ; and relying on your kindness in my favor ( for every man has enemies , and those mostly who serve their friends best ) , I say , Dick , on these considerations , since you never broke your word with me ...
... reason well , my worthy sir ; and relying on your kindness in my favor ( for every man has enemies , and those mostly who serve their friends best ) , I say , Dick , on these considerations , since you never broke your word with me ...
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... reason of its size , it is further accentuated by the circumstance that it is light colored , while the rest of him is dark . When the water turkey saw us , he jumped up on a limb and stared . Then suddenly he dropped into the water ...
... reason of its size , it is further accentuated by the circumstance that it is light colored , while the rest of him is dark . When the water turkey saw us , he jumped up on a limb and stared . Then suddenly he dropped into the water ...
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Seite 2677 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Seite 2572 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper,* void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience...
Seite 2465 - His memory is odoriferous ; no clown curseth, while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon ; no coalheaver bolteth him in reeking sausages ; he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure, and for such a tomb might be content to die.
Seite 2593 - Firstly, our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them: and thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities...
Seite 2463 - The judge, who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision ; and, when the court was dismissed, went privily, and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town house was observed to be on fire.
Seite 2594 - These two, I say, viz., external material things as the objects of sensation, and the operations of our own minds within as the objects of reflection, are, to me, the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
Seite 2594 - But as I call the other sensation, so I call this, REFLECTION, the ideas it affords being such only as the mind gets by reflecting on its own operations within itself!
Seite 2728 - Judge. Sirrah, Sirrah, thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.
Seite 2462 - He burnt his fingers, and to cool them he applied them in his booby fashion to his mouth. Some of the crumbs of the scorched skin had come away with his fingers, and for the first time in his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — crackling!
Seite 2592 - ... whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant, army, drunkenness, and others : it is in the first place then to be inquired, how he comes by them...