Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... minds are driven in - doors also , they are compelled to look inwards , to draw from their internal resources ; and ... mind's eye with all their garniture and glory , as glibly as he can pronounce the words , may depend upon it that he ...
... minds are driven in - doors also , they are compelled to look inwards , to draw from their internal resources ; and ... mind's eye with all their garniture and glory , as glibly as he can pronounce the words , may depend upon it that he ...
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... mind . The corporeal eye puts out the mental one : I am obliged to take pastoral objects as they present them- selves , and to believe the hand - writing on the finger- posts which invariably and solemnly assert that I am within four ...
... mind . The corporeal eye puts out the mental one : I am obliged to take pastoral objects as they present them- selves , and to believe the hand - writing on the finger- posts which invariably and solemnly assert that I am within four ...
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... mind for the gratifications denied to his body , and apply to his fire - side for the warmth withheld from him by the sun : hence the two distinguishing traits of his character - mental activity and domestic virtue . It is astonishing ...
... mind for the gratifications denied to his body , and apply to his fire - side for the warmth withheld from him by the sun : hence the two distinguishing traits of his character - mental activity and domestic virtue . It is astonishing ...
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... mind and body must be expected to degenerate ; and I should no more dream of ideas flowing from the benumbed scull of a Laplander or a Kamschatkan , than of water gushing from a frozen plug . If my conjecture as to the influence of ...
... mind and body must be expected to degenerate ; and I should no more dream of ideas flowing from the benumbed scull of a Laplander or a Kamschatkan , than of water gushing from a frozen plug . If my conjecture as to the influence of ...
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... are to those of the mind ? Nature has been prodigal in supplying delights , and the in- genuity of man has been unceasingly occupied in con- A whole tributing to their increase or modification . world 28 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES.
... are to those of the mind ? Nature has been prodigal in supplying delights , and the in- genuity of man has been unceasingly occupied in con- A whole tributing to their increase or modification . world 28 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES.
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