Letters, Sentences, and MaximsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1888 - 327 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 73
... conversation ; but , on the contrary , breaks into it from time to time , with some start of his own , as if he waked from a dream . This ( as I said before ) is a sure indica- tion , either of a mind so weak that it is not able to bear ...
... conversation ; but , on the contrary , breaks into it from time to time , with some start of his own , as if he waked from a dream . This ( as I said before ) is a sure indica- tion , either of a mind so weak that it is not able to bear ...
Σελίδα 76
... conversations with women of fashion and sense . These are the real pleasures of a gentleman : which occasion neither sickness , shame , nor repentance . Whatever exceeds them becomes low vice , brutal passion , debauchery , and in ...
... conversations with women of fashion and sense . These are the real pleasures of a gentleman : which occasion neither sickness , shame , nor repentance . Whatever exceeds them becomes low vice , brutal passion , debauchery , and in ...
Σελίδα 83
... conversations of two people of wit , rather than letters ; which are commonly studied , though they ought not to be so . I would advise you to let that book be one in your itinerant library . [ July 20 , 1747. ] PERSONAL CLEANLINESS ...
... conversations of two people of wit , rather than letters ; which are commonly studied , though they ought not to be so . I would advise you to let that book be one in your itinerant library . [ July 20 , 1747. ] PERSONAL CLEANLINESS ...
Σελίδα 92
... conversation ; but are either thinking of some trifle , foreign to the present purpose , or , often , not thinking at all ; which silly and idle suspension of thought they would dignify with the name of absence and distraction . They go ...
... conversation ; but are either thinking of some trifle , foreign to the present purpose , or , often , not thinking at all ; which silly and idle suspension of thought they would dignify with the name of absence and distraction . They go ...
Σελίδα 100
... conversation was heard in the air of all those words set at liberty . [ Jan. 29 , 1748. ] POLITICAL IGNORANCE OF THE ENGLISH.— We are in general in England ignorant of for- eign affairs , and of the interests , views , preten- sions ...
... conversation was heard in the air of all those words set at liberty . [ Jan. 29 , 1748. ] POLITICAL IGNORANCE OF THE ENGLISH.— We are in general in England ignorant of for- eign affairs , and of the interests , views , preten- sions ...
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