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... hand by a stone , upon the palate by an apricot , and upon the nostrils by a rose . It is otherwise in seeing and hearing ; for I am not sensible of the impression made upon my eye , when I behold a tree ; nor of the impression made ...
... hand by a stone , upon the palate by an apricot , and upon the nostrils by a rose . It is otherwise in seeing and hearing ; for I am not sensible of the impression made upon my eye , when I behold a tree ; nor of the impression made ...
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... hand , any intense exercise of intellectual powers , becomes painful by overstraining the mind . Cessation from such exercise gives not instant relief : it is necessary that the void be filled with some amusement , gently relaxing the ...
... hand , any intense exercise of intellectual powers , becomes painful by overstraining the mind . Cessation from such exercise gives not instant relief : it is necessary that the void be filled with some amusement , gently relaxing the ...
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... hand in hand with the moral sense , to which indeed it is nearly allied . Both of them discover what is right and what is wrong : fashion , temper , and education , have an influence to vitiate both , or to preserve them pure and ...
... hand in hand with the moral sense , to which indeed it is nearly allied . Both of them discover what is right and what is wrong : fashion , temper , and education , have an influence to vitiate both , or to preserve them pure and ...
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... hand ; and he was far ad- vanced before the thought struck him , that his private meditations might be publicly useful . In public , however , he would not appear in a slovenly dress ; and , therefore , he pretends not otherwise to ...
... hand ; and he was far ad- vanced before the thought struck him , that his private meditations might be publicly useful . In public , however , he would not appear in a slovenly dress ; and , therefore , he pretends not otherwise to ...
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... hand , a man of accurate judgment cannot have a great flow of ideas , because the slighter relations , making no figure in his mind , have no power to introduce ideas . And hence it is that accurate judgment is not friendly to ...
... hand , a man of accurate judgment cannot have a great flow of ideas , because the slighter relations , making no figure in his mind , have no power to introduce ideas . And hence it is that accurate judgment is not friendly to ...
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Page 332 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 112 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Page 397 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond...
Page 142 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Page 395 - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
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Page 406 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 329 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. DUCH. Alas, poor Richard! where rides he the whilst? YORK. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
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Page 242 - tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two...