With the Wits: Shelburne Essays, Tenth SeriesHoughton Mifflin, 1919 - 311 páginas |
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... society kept in motion . Even the knave is a fool in a way , for he is deceived in his valuation of the things he seeks , whereas the man who really knows the world must be weary of its emptiness . From such a dilemma there is only one ...
... society kept in motion . Even the knave is a fool in a way , for he is deceived in his valuation of the things he seeks , whereas the man who really knows the world must be weary of its emptiness . From such a dilemma there is only one ...
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... society by anatomizing the secret motives of its activity . I quote , somewhat at random , a few of the shrewder epigrams : It is in a disorderly Government as in a river , the lightest things swim at the top . In Parliaments men ...
... society by anatomizing the secret motives of its activity . I quote , somewhat at random , a few of the shrewder epigrams : It is in a disorderly Government as in a river , the lightest things swim at the top . In Parliaments men ...
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... society ; Halifax himself , were he writing to - day , would probably change it for a gentler equivalent . He would acknowledge in the hearts of men moments of finer impulse and higher vision , as he acknowledged them in the hearts of ...
... society ; Halifax himself , were he writing to - day , would probably change it for a gentler equivalent . He would acknowledge in the hearts of men moments of finer impulse and higher vision , as he acknowledged them in the hearts of ...
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... society ; Halifax himself , were he writing to - day , would probably change it for a gentler equivalent . He would acknowledge in the hearts of men moments of finer impulse and higher vision , as he acknowledged them in the hearts of ...
... society ; Halifax himself , were he writing to - day , would probably change it for a gentler equivalent . He would acknowledge in the hearts of men moments of finer impulse and higher vision , as he acknowledged them in the hearts of ...
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... society there will be found a taint of this same egotism , displaying itself in a kind of mal- aise at distinction wherever seen and however manifested . He is the leader of men who soothes us with the assurance that our native ...
... society there will be found a taint of this same egotism , displaying itself in a kind of mal- aise at distinction wherever seen and however manifested . He is the leader of men who soothes us with the assurance that our native ...
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