Letters, Sentences and MaximsChesterfield Society, 1850 - 348 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 113
... tion of everybody ; but with this difference , that women , and men who are like women , mind the binding more than the book , whereas men of sense and learning immediately examine the inside , and , if they find that it does not answer ...
... tion of everybody ; but with this difference , that women , and men who are like women , mind the binding more than the book , whereas men of sense and learning immediately examine the inside , and , if they find that it does not answer ...
Σελίδα 119
... tion ; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it . The scholar , who in the dust of his closet talks or writes of the world , knows no more of it than that orator did of war , who judi- ciously endeavored to ...
... tion ; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it . The scholar , who in the dust of his closet talks or writes of the world , knows no more of it than that orator did of war , who judi- ciously endeavored to ...
Σελίδα 140
... tion ; but as it is generally connected with the idea of gaiety , people do not enough attend to its absurdity . I am neither of a melancholy nor a cynical disposi- tion ; and am as willing and as apt to be pleased as anybody ; but I am ...
... tion ; but as it is generally connected with the idea of gaiety , people do not enough attend to its absurdity . I am neither of a melancholy nor a cynical disposi- tion ; and am as willing and as apt to be pleased as anybody ; but I am ...
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