Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who ThinkCharles Wells, 1836 - 504 sider |
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Side 19
... produce the great- est crop is not the best farmer , but he that can effect it with the least expense ; so in society , he is not the best member , who can bring about the most good , but he that can accomplish it with LACON . 19.
... produce the great- est crop is not the best farmer , but he that can effect it with the least expense ; so in society , he is not the best member , who can bring about the most good , but he that can accomplish it with LACON . 19.
Side 20
... society more or less civilized and refined . - Perhaps the whole four are all ultimately resolvable in power . But in the just appreciation of this power men are too apt to be deceived . Nothing , for instance , is more common than to ...
... society more or less civilized and refined . - Perhaps the whole four are all ultimately resolvable in power . But in the just appreciation of this power men are too apt to be deceived . Nothing , for instance , is more common than to ...
Side 26
... societies , it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest ; not that the highest are always the best , but , because if disgusted there , we can at any time descend ; but if we begin with the lowest , to ascend is impossible ...
... societies , it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest ; not that the highest are always the best , but , because if disgusted there , we can at any time descend ; but if we begin with the lowest , to ascend is impossible ...
Side 54
... society , and the double , yet equal and contrary demands arising out of them , where duty and justice are constantly opposed to gratitude and inclination , these things must make the profession of a statesman , an office neither easy ...
... society , and the double , yet equal and contrary demands arising out of them , where duty and justice are constantly opposed to gratitude and inclination , these things must make the profession of a statesman , an office neither easy ...
Side 57
... society ; exasperated at all who do not recognise their former royalty , and commiserate their present degradation . The Senior Wrangler , of a certain year , piping hot from the Senate House at Cam- bridge , went to the play at Drury ...
... society ; exasperated at all who do not recognise their former royalty , and commiserate their present degradation . The Senior Wrangler , of a certain year , piping hot from the Senate House at Cam- bridge , went to the play at Drury ...
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