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... distinctions of dif- ferent classes , what they are not , and what they are , 80–82 — higher class dependent upon the lower in character and condition , 82-84- 21 all classes of society alike subject to external vicissitudes , vi CONTENTS .
... distinctions of dif- ferent classes , what they are not , and what they are , 80–82 — higher class dependent upon the lower in character and condition , 82-84- 21 all classes of society alike subject to external vicissitudes , vi CONTENTS .
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... distinction certain in regard to him , which in re- gard to himself he is willing to attribute , in part at least , to lucky coincidences . This son , however , after being made to pass through the customary forms and processes of what ...
... distinction certain in regard to him , which in re- gard to himself he is willing to attribute , in part at least , to lucky coincidences . This son , however , after being made to pass through the customary forms and processes of what ...
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... distinctions , to repress the tendencies of nature , and to doom individuals to penury or af fluence , to offices of dependence or to elevated stations , not ac- cording to their merit , as tested by fair competition , but solely with ...
... distinctions , to repress the tendencies of nature , and to doom individuals to penury or af fluence , to offices of dependence or to elevated stations , not ac- cording to their merit , as tested by fair competition , but solely with ...
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... distinctions of our country and of the age ? Here has been a notable proof that the rank of a king can no longer screen the guilt of the individual , and that an individual may refuse a crown , and yet exert a greater influence over ...
... distinctions of our country and of the age ? Here has been a notable proof that the rank of a king can no longer screen the guilt of the individual , and that an individual may refuse a crown , and yet exert a greater influence over ...
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... distinction and usefulness of incalculable efficiency ; if the highest public honors and dearest private comforts are ... distinctions except those of individual merit , are unknown - that the object is to communicate in- struction to ...
... distinction and usefulness of incalculable efficiency ; if the highest public honors and dearest private comforts are ... distinctions except those of individual merit , are unknown - that the object is to communicate in- struction to ...
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Page 137 - And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air ; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them : and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 142 - And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Page 139 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 212 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 109 - When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment about distances, that he thought all objects whatever touched his eyes (as he expressed it), as what he felt did his skin ; and thought no objects so agreeable as those which were smooth and regular, though he could form no judgment of their shape, or guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him.
Page 21 - A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more...
Page 110 - ... the room he was in, he said, he knew to be but part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger.
Page 67 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 288 - V DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 1. The President, or, in his absence, one of the Vice Presidents, or, in their absence, a President pro tempore, shall preside at the meetings of the Institute.
Page 34 - In the sun's orb, made porous to receive And drink the liquid light ; firm to retain Her gather'd beams, great palace now of light. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...