 Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.  The Philosophy of Rhetoric - Page 96by George Campbell - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a 5 man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
 | William Law - Mysticism - 1908 - 204 pages
...will make death to be life, and fire to be water. But you might as well expect that God should make a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time; for this is as possible as to make Hell to be Heaven, or Death to be Life; for darkness can no more... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - England - 1909 - 636 pages
...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not' to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 540 pages
...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent 5 party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself... | |
 | John Paterson Smyth - Eschatology - 1910 - 248 pages
...God do contradictory things ? Can God make a door to be open and shut at the same time ? Can God make a thing to be and not to be at the same time ? Can God make a man's will free to choose good or evil and yet secure that he shall certainly choose... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Character - 1911 - 148 pages
...that they can be cheated. But it is as 5 impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1911 - 196 pages
...a king. Spiritual Laws. BUT it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - English essays - 1914 - 244 pages
...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
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