Table Talk: Or, Original Essays on Men and Manners, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1824 - 401 pages |
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... words convey no distinct meaning to the mind , are mere idle sounds , except that our vanity claims an interest and property in them . I have more satisfaction in my own thoughts than in dictating them to others : words are necessary to ...
... words convey no distinct meaning to the mind , are mere idle sounds , except that our vanity claims an interest and property in them . I have more satisfaction in my own thoughts than in dictating them to others : words are necessary to ...
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... words , and them I forget . I have , as it were , discharged my memory of its old ha- bitual reckoning , and rubbed out the score of real sentiment . For the future , it exists only for the sake of others . - But I cannot say , from my ...
... words , and them I forget . I have , as it were , discharged my memory of its old ha- bitual reckoning , and rubbed out the score of real sentiment . For the future , it exists only for the sake of others . - But I cannot say , from my ...
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... word , to attempt to produce any effect , and to succeed , has something in it that gratifies the love of power , and carries off the restless activity of the mind of man . Indolence is a delightful but dis- tressing state we must be ...
... word , to attempt to produce any effect , and to succeed , has something in it that gratifies the love of power , and carries off the restless activity of the mind of man . Indolence is a delightful but dis- tressing state we must be ...
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... words , all that excellence which lies between these two extremes , -all , at least , that marks the excess above mediocrity , -all that constitutes true beauty , harmony , refinement , grandeur , is lost upon the common observer . But ...
... words , all that excellence which lies between these two extremes , -all , at least , that marks the excess above mediocrity , -all that constitutes true beauty , harmony , refinement , grandeur , is lost upon the common observer . But ...
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... word , the length of our common journey and the quantity of events . crowded into it , that , baffling the grasp of our actual perception , make it slide from our memory , and dwindle into nothing in its own perspective . It is too ...
... word , the length of our common journey and the quantity of events . crowded into it , that , baffling the grasp of our actual perception , make it slide from our memory , and dwindle into nothing in its own perspective . It is too ...
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