Thoughts on Men and Things: A Series of Essays

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Página 82 - English workmen, completely lose their balance: they do not understand their position, and after a certain time become totally unmanageable and useless."* This result of observation is borne out by experience in England itself.
Página 178 - Chaucer. Can any reader oblige by giving the exact reference ? CA WARD. " A nameless grace, A sweet persuasiveness of face.
Página 185 - ... observed, on one occasion, rather satirically, that love was a mere amusement, and calculated for nothing more than to enlarge the influence of the woman, and abridge the power of the man. Goldsmith's Hermit said to his lovely visiter, — " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's jest ; On earth unseen, or only found To warm the turtle's nest.
Página 7 - If a goose weighs ten pounds and half its own weight, what is the weight of the goose...
Página 95 - On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all paradise before your eye. To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.
Página 168 - I'm taking a holiday," he said. "I don't know that 1'vo any particular right to it, but I don't know these place?, and I took it into my head that I should like to have a look at a Carnival in Nice.
Página 163 - Divine, and for my own part I do not hesitate to say that whenever I think of him I feel myself becoming quite theological.
Página 129 - But that is not what I was going to say. You know...

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