In a Club Corner: The Monologue of a Man who Might Have Been SociableHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 328 páginas |
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... says Emerson , in which a man has all mankind for his competitors , for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live . Metternich is re- Metternich's ported to have said , " In my whole life I have only known ten or ...
... says Emerson , in which a man has all mankind for his competitors , for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live . Metternich is re- Metternich's ported to have said , " In my whole life I have only known ten or ...
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... says , which reminded me a effort . little of the character which the wits of Johnson's circle give of Beauclerk . He told several stories about the political men of France : not of any great value in them- selves but his way of telling ...
... says , which reminded me a effort . little of the character which the wits of Johnson's circle give of Beauclerk . He told several stories about the political men of France : not of any great value in them- selves but his way of telling ...
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... says his nephew , there are repe- titions , either literal or substantial , of pas- sages to be found in some others of those writings ; and there are several particular positions and reasonings which he con- sidered of vital importance ...
... says his nephew , there are repe- titions , either literal or substantial , of pas- sages to be found in some others of those writings ; and there are several particular positions and reasonings which he con- sidered of vital importance ...
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... says , " ranged the world . " " To remember his talk , " says Thackeray , " is to wonder : to think not only of the treasures he had in his memory , but of the trifles he had stored there , and could produce with equal readiness . Every ...
... says , " ranged the world . " " To remember his talk , " says Thackeray , " is to wonder : to think not only of the treasures he had in his memory , but of the trifles he had stored there , and could produce with equal readiness . Every ...
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... says Leigh Hunt , " introduce the subject of eating . " No The subject man is ignorant or reticent on that inter- of eating . esting subject . Nor does he fail to be in- telligent and loquacious when his neigh- bors are to be discussed ...
... says Leigh Hunt , " introduce the subject of eating . " No The subject man is ignorant or reticent on that inter- of eating . esting subject . Nor does he fail to be in- telligent and loquacious when his neigh- bors are to be discussed ...
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Página 54 - I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Página 259 - ... swarm all around him, while contemplating the monsters in a drop of vinegar. Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month, — the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this, — or the boy who had attended the lectures on metallurgy at the Institute in the mean while, and had received a Rogers...
Página 39 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Página 71 - I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
Página 245 - Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. Poverty takes away so many means of doing good, and produces so much inability to resist evil, both natural and moral, that it is by all virtuous means to be avoided.
Página 140 - All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun;
Página 69 - For which reason, as there is nothing more ridiculous than an old trifling story-teller, so there is nothing more venerable, than one who has turned his experience to the entertainment and advantage of mankind.
Página 35 - I was present not long since at a party of North Britons, where a son of Burns was expected, and happened to drop a silly expression (in my South British way) that I wished it were the father instead of the son, when four of them started up at once to inform me that "that was impossible, because he was dead.
Página 304 - There he stood working at his anvil, his face all radiant with exercise and gladness, his sleeves turned up, his wig pushed off his shining forehead — the easiest, freest, happiest man in all the world.
Página 41 - What is not good for virtue, is good for knowledge. Hence his contemporaries tax him with plagiarism. But the inventor only knows how to borrow; and society is glad to forget the innumerable...