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" The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend. To these two original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic... "
The English Familiar Essay: Representative Texts - Page 220
edited by - 1916 - 471 pages
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The Works of Charles Lamb ...

Charles Lamb - 1881 - 472 pages
...and both my good friends still — close the catalogue of Grecians in my time. THE TWO RACES OF MEN. THE human species, according to the best theory I...two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men wJio lend. To these two original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of...
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Thrift: Or, How to Get on in the World

Samuel Smiles - Saving and investment - 1881 - 314 pages
...the honest heait " — DOUGLAS jEKiiOi.D. "The human species, according to the best theory I can foim of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men...borrow and the men who lend. To these two original diveisities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic tiibes. white...
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London Society, Volume 42

James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1882 - 780 pages
...FROM THE ESSAYS OF ELIA. THE Two RACES OF MEN. — The human species, according to the best theory 1 can form of it, is composed of two distinct races — the men iclio borrow, and the men who lend. To these two original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent...
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Essays of Elia: Y Charles Lamb; Illustrated by R. Swain Gifford, James D ...

Charles Lamb - 1884 - 546 pages
...and both my good friends still — close the catalogue of Grecians in my time. THE TWO RACES OF MEN. THE human species, according to the best theory I...of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men wlio borrow, and the men who lend. To these two original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent...
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Educational News, Volume 10

Albert Newton Raub - Education - 1894 - 782 pages
...— Charles Lamb. "The human species, according to the b<-st theory I can form of it, is cotnposed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend." Feb. ii, 1847. — Thomas A. Edison. Feb. ii, 1809. — Abraham Lincoln. Tell the story of Lincoln's...
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Papers on Indian Reform: Sanitary, Material, Social, Moral and Religious

Brahma-samaj - 1889 - 854 pages
...the morrow. A wise man thinks of the future and prepares for it. " The human species," says Lamb, " is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men ivJio lend." These are " the savers and the wasters, the provident and the improvident, the thrifty...
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Thrift

Samuel Smiles - Saving and investment - 1800 - 414 pages
...the frank, open face into wrinkles ; how, like a knife, it will stab the honest heart."— DOUGLAS " The human species, according to the best theory. I...and Celtic tribes, white men, black men, red men, and such-like." — C'HAKI.ES LAMB. T>EOPLE do not know what troubles they are brew-* iug for themselves...
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The Essays of Elia: 1st Series

Charles Lamb - 1890 - 246 pages
...the catalogue of Grecians in my time. THE TWO RACES OF MEN. THE human species, according to the hest theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct...men who lend. To these two original diversities may he reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic tribes, white men, black men,...
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The Essays of Elia and Eliana

Charles Lamb - 1890 - 584 pages
...distinct races, the men tc/w borrow, and the men tcho lend. To these two original diversities may bo reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic...men, black men, red men. All the dwellers upon earth, "Parisians, and Medes, and Elamites," flock hither, and do naturally fall in with one or other of these...
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Punch, Volumes 100-109

Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1895 - 688 pages
...say, " No, thank 'ее." On- BLAS-Ê.— CHARLES LAMB declared the human species to be dividid into two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend, if which he considered the former to be infinitely superior to the latter, and consequently designated...
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