Landscapes, churches, and moralities, by the author of 'Recreations of a country parson'.Longmans Green, 1874 - 320 pages |
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... Success . - Concerning Giving Up and Coming Down . - Concerning the Worries of Life and How to Meet them . - Concerning the Dignity of Dulness . Concerning Growing Old . - Concern- ing Scylla and Charybdis ; with some Thoughts upon the ...
... Success . - Concerning Giving Up and Coming Down . - Concerning the Worries of Life and How to Meet them . - Concerning the Dignity of Dulness . Concerning Growing Old . - Concern- ing Scylla and Charybdis ; with some Thoughts upon the ...
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... success and happiness . A good bath of depreciation is a bracing thing , if you have stamina to stand it . It may kill you altogether : but if it do not kill you , you will come out of it strengthened , sweetened , sobered , humbled ...
... success and happiness . A good bath of depreciation is a bracing thing , if you have stamina to stand it . It may kill you altogether : but if it do not kill you , you will come out of it strengthened , sweetened , sobered , humbled ...
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... successful merchandise , not to say of aristocracy . Once , in Ethiopia , a man of genius , incumbent of a certain parish , wherein dwelt a magnate of the earth , was kept by the magnate as at the end of an extremely long pole . The man ...
... successful merchandise , not to say of aristocracy . Once , in Ethiopia , a man of genius , incumbent of a certain parish , wherein dwelt a magnate of the earth , was kept by the magnate as at the end of an extremely long pole . The man ...
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... neque superior , is often vexed by fears that he is below his work . This is the disappointment of successful men . Keats , F morbidly ambitious and morbidly sensitive , declared that , ' With Some Thoughts on Dislike . 65.
... neque superior , is often vexed by fears that he is below his work . This is the disappointment of successful men . Keats , F morbidly ambitious and morbidly sensitive , declared that , ' With Some Thoughts on Dislike . 65.
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... successful . Most unpardonable is this offence to some ignoble natures . And specially if A and B were competitors for any end whatsoever , and B beat A , A , if a mean creature , will hate B heartily . Of course , this is natural . It ...
... successful . Most unpardonable is this offence to some ignoble natures . And specially if A and B were competitors for any end whatsoever , and B beat A , A , if a mean creature , will hate B heartily . Of course , this is natural . It ...
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