 Everybody had a mission (with a capital M) to attend to everybody else's business. No brain but had its private maggot, which must have found pitiably short commons sometimes. Not a few impecunious zealots abjured the use of money (unless earned by other...  Scribners Monthly - Page 2221872Full view - About this book
 | Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1900 - 598 pages
...general orders. Everybody had a mission (with a capital M) to attend to everybody else's business. No brain but had its private maggot, which must have found pitiably short commons sometimes. Not a few impecunious zealots abjured the use of money (unless earned by other people), professing... | |
 | William Morton Payne - American essays - 1904 - 346 pages
...in general orders. Everybody had a mission (with a capital M) to attend to everybodyelse's business. No brain but had its private maggot, which must have found pitiably short commons sometimes. Not a few impecunious zealots abjured the use of money (unless earned by other people), professing... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 520 pages
...general orders. Everybody had a mission (with a capital M) to attend to everybody else's business. No brain but had its private maggot, which must have found pitiably short commons sometimes. Not a few impecunious zealots abjured the use of money (unless earned by other people), professing... | |
 | 1909 - 366 pages
...which some Crank readers know of : " Everybody had a mission to attend to everybody else's business. No brain but had its private maggot, which must have found pitiably short commons somewhere. Not a few impecunious zealots abjured the use of money (unless earned by other people),... | |
 | Ferris Greenslet - Biography & Autobiography - 1905 - 344 pages
...general orders. Everybody had a mission (with a capital M) to attend to everybody-else's business. No brain but had its private maggot, which must have found pitiably short commons sometimes. Not a few impecunious zealots abjured the use of money (unless earned by other people), professing... | |
 | Gustav Pollak - Criticism - 1914 - 360 pages
...general orders. Everybody had a mission (with a capital M) to attend to everybody-else 's business. No brain but had its private maggot, which must have found pitiably short commons sometimes. Not a few impecunious zealots abjured the use of money (unless earned by other people), professing... | |
 | Henry David Gray - Philosophy - 1917 - 122 pages
...essay on Thoreau. "Everybody had a mission (with a capital M) to attend to everybody else's business. No brain but had its private maggot, which must have found pitiably short commons sometimes." And in the same spirit Hawthorne, in his American NoteBooks, speaks of Margaret Fuller's refractory... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English essays - 1922 - 270 pages
...general orders. Everybody had a mission (with a capital M) to attend to everybody-else's business. No brain but had its private maggot, which must have found pitiably short commons sometimes. Not a few impecunious zealots abjured the use of money (unless earned by other people), professing... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - United States - 1922 - 336 pages
...George Fox. . . . Everybody had a mission (with a capital M) to attend to everybody-else's business. No brain but had its private maggot, which must have found pitiably short commons sometimes. Not a few impecunious zealots abjured the use of money (unless earned by other people), professing... | |
 | 1898 - 792 pages
...England must have been glorious times for the reforming instinct, when, as Mr. Lowell says, there was "no brain but had its private maggot, which must have found pitiably short commons sometimes," and in which it is evident that women were deeply involved, from the very nature of the reforms themselves.... | |
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