Essays, Orations and LecturesWilliam Tegg and Company, 1848 - 385 páginas |
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... means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere or other , some time or other , it will demand and find compensation for that loss by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known : the better ...
... means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere or other , some time or other , it will demand and find compensation for that loss by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known : the better ...
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... means the impossi- bility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul . The transmigration of souls - that too is no fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human ...
... means the impossi- bility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul . The transmigration of souls - that too is no fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human ...
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... means opposed to our purpose , these have not . Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet un- conquered ; and when we look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all conform to it , so that one babe ...
... means opposed to our purpose , these have not . Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet un- conquered ; and when we look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all conform to it , so that one babe ...
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... mean as my gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assurance or the assur- ance of my fellows any secondary testimony . What I must do is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally arduous ...
... mean as my gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assurance or the assur- ance of my fellows any secondary testimony . What I must do is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally arduous ...
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... to wreak itself also in the general history ; I mean " the foolish face of praise , " the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease , in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The SELF - RELIANCE .
... to wreak itself also in the general history ; I mean " the foolish face of praise , " the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease , in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The SELF - RELIANCE .
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