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Page 33
... thoughts , and show us how- inasmuch as the sums exhausted for that magnificence would have given back the failing ... thought of - the grass that grows on graves . It was not , however , this last , this clearest and most appalling ...
... thoughts , and show us how- inasmuch as the sums exhausted for that magnificence would have given back the failing ... thought of - the grass that grows on graves . It was not , however , this last , this clearest and most appalling ...
Page 102
... thought of as his possession than the air he breathes . The air is as needful to him as the food ; but we do not talk of a man's wealth of air , and what food or clothing a man possesses more than he himself requires , must be for ...
... thought of as his possession than the air he breathes . The air is as needful to him as the food ; but we do not talk of a man's wealth of air , and what food or clothing a man possesses more than he himself requires , must be for ...
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... thoughts in a particular occupation . " True ; but why not also , " feelings of an agreeable kind ? " It can hardly be ... thought was in itself a recommendable object of production , and that all Material production was only a step ...
... thoughts in a particular occupation . " True ; but why not also , " feelings of an agreeable kind ? " It can hardly be ... thought was in itself a recommendable object of production , and that all Material production was only a step ...
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