Miscellaneous Essays: Second SeriesTrübner, 1884 - 294 Seiten |
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... desire of something new , something vast , something magnificent ; he prefers to fly to evils that he knows not of , rather than to bear those with which he is familiar . His golden age beckons to him out of the untried and unrealised ...
... desire of something new , something vast , something magnificent ; he prefers to fly to evils that he knows not of , rather than to bear those with which he is familiar . His golden age beckons to him out of the untried and unrealised ...
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... desire , and the conception of our aim , as to the scene in which we locate it , and the means we employ to arrive at it . The cultivated , the virtuous , and the wise , place their happiness in the gratification of the affections , and ...
... desire , and the conception of our aim , as to the scene in which we locate it , and the means we employ to arrive at it . The cultivated , the virtuous , and the wise , place their happiness in the gratification of the affections , and ...
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... desire . Now the French — that is , that active and energetic portion of them which gives the tone to the whole ... desires and efforts after happiness upon this , but to make their conception of the happiness of this life essentially ...
... desire . Now the French — that is , that active and energetic portion of them which gives the tone to the whole ... desires and efforts after happiness upon this , but to make their conception of the happiness of this life essentially ...
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... desires are at war with their destiny ; and who in place of chastening and moderating the former , would refashion and reverse the latter . There is yet another class , swayed by loftier motives , but pulling in the same direction ...
... desires are at war with their destiny ; and who in place of chastening and moderating the former , would refashion and reverse the latter . There is yet another class , swayed by loftier motives , but pulling in the same direction ...
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... desires and such attempts at their realisation are rife , must be obvious at a glance . One special point which even aggravates these difficulties , we shall have to recur to presently . Side by side with the absence of religion in ...
... desires and such attempts at their realisation are rife , must be obvious at a glance . One special point which even aggravates these difficulties , we shall have to recur to presently . Side by side with the absence of religion in ...
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Seite 224 - Chancellor of the Exchequer as well as First Lord of the Treasury; Bruce, created Lord Aberdare, President of the Council; Bright, who had retired through ill-health (Dec.