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... minds under the constant dread of the recurrence of madness , is one of those miracles of contradiction which ... mind . One of the marks of self - mastery in the physical suffering such responsiveness entails is humor . All humor ...
... minds under the constant dread of the recurrence of madness , is one of those miracles of contradiction which ... mind . One of the marks of self - mastery in the physical suffering such responsiveness entails is humor . All humor ...
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... mind than to be a suppliant to the particular humors or caprice of any fellow - creature , or set of fellow- creatures , parochial or societarian . Theirs were the only CHARLES LAMB 2453 A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the tropolis.
... mind than to be a suppliant to the particular humors or caprice of any fellow - creature , or set of fellow- creatures , parochial or societarian . Theirs were the only CHARLES LAMB 2453 A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the tropolis.
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... mind , to be a Beggar . Rags , which are the reproach of poverty , are the Beggar's robes , and graceful insignia of his profession , his tenure , his full dress , the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public . He is never ...
... mind , to be a Beggar . Rags , which are the reproach of poverty , are the Beggar's robes , and graceful insignia of his profession , his tenure , his full dress , the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public . He is never ...
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... mind to a concentration of all the images that have been diffused over the past twelvemonth ; all I have done or suffered , performed or neglected - in that regretted time . I begin to know its worth , as when a person dies . It takes a ...
... mind to a concentration of all the images that have been diffused over the past twelvemonth ; all I have done or suffered , performed or neglected - in that regretted time . I begin to know its worth , as when a person dies . It takes a ...
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... mind is introspective —and mine is painfully so - can have a less respect for his pres- ent identity than I have for the man Elia . I know him to be light , and vain , and humorsome ; a notorious ; addicted to • it ; · ; averse from ...
... mind is introspective —and mine is painfully so - can have a less respect for his pres- ent identity than I have for the man Elia . I know him to be light , and vain , and humorsome ; a notorious ; addicted to • it ; · ; averse from ...
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Página 2677 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Página 2572 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper,* void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience...
Página 2465 - His memory is odoriferous ; no clown curseth, while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon ; no coalheaver bolteth him in reeking sausages ; he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure, and for such a tomb might be content to die.
Página 2593 - Firstly, our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them: and thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities...
Página 2463 - The judge, who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision ; and, when the court was dismissed, went privily, and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town house was observed to be on fire.
Página 2594 - These two, I say, viz., external material things as the objects of sensation, and the operations of our own minds within as the objects of reflection, are, to me, the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
Página 2594 - But as I call the other sensation, so I call this, REFLECTION, the ideas it affords being such only as the mind gets by reflecting on its own operations within itself!
Página 2728 - Judge. Sirrah, Sirrah, thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.
Página 2462 - He burnt his fingers, and to cool them he applied them in his booby fashion to his mouth. Some of the crumbs of the scorched skin had come away with his fingers, and for the first time in his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — crackling!
Página 2592 - ... whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant, army, drunkenness, and others : it is in the first place then to be inquired, how he comes by them...