Leisure Hours in TownTicknor and Fields, 1863 - 437 pages |
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Page 13
... better done , if the forenoon of that day were given to recruiting one's energies after the Sunday duty . And I am not claiming these seasons of leisure for the clergymen , merely for Aristotle's reason : merely because " the end of ...
... better done , if the forenoon of that day were given to recruiting one's energies after the Sunday duty . And I am not claiming these seasons of leisure for the clergymen , merely for Aristotle's reason : merely because " the end of ...
Page 14
... better . It spent Sun- day in walking round and round , in the opposite direc tion from that in which it walked on week - days . It found rest , in short , not in idleness ; but in variation of employment . I commend that horse . I have ...
... better . It spent Sun- day in walking round and round , in the opposite direc tion from that in which it walked on week - days . It found rest , in short , not in idleness ; but in variation of employment . I commend that horse . I have ...
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... better than beef , and may feed upon it with the liveliest satisfaction ; but when it is fairly and deliberately put to us , it must be admitted even by such as like Veal the best , that Veal is but an immature pro- duction of nature ...
... better than beef , and may feed upon it with the liveliest satisfaction ; but when it is fairly and deliberately put to us , it must be admitted even by such as like Veal the best , that Veal is but an immature pro- duction of nature ...
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... better and profited them more to listen to the plainer instructions of some good man with gray hair , you would not have understood their feel- ing ; and you might perhaps have attributed it to many motives rather than the true one ...
... better and profited them more to listen to the plainer instructions of some good man with gray hair , you would not have understood their feel- ing ; and you might perhaps have attributed it to many motives rather than the true one ...
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... better than those whom they advise . But in reality it is not so . The opinions of the essayist or of the preacher , if deserv- ing of notice at all , are so because of their inherent truth , and not because he expresses them . Estimate ...
... better than those whom they advise . But in reality it is not so . The opinions of the essayist or of the preacher , if deserv- ing of notice at all , are so because of their inherent truth , and not because he expresses them . Estimate ...
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