Miscellaneous Essays: Second SeriesTrübner, 1884 - 294 páginas |
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... Material welfare they value indeed , but they pursue it with a moderate and restrained desire . To the ignorant and the sensual , happiness consists in physical enjoyment and the possession of the · good things of life . The paradise of ...
... Material welfare they value indeed , but they pursue it with a moderate and restrained desire . To the ignorant and the sensual , happiness consists in physical enjoyment and the possession of the · good things of life . The paradise of ...
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... ciations of the past , as remorselessly as did the daughter of Servius over the scarce lifeless body of her father . This passion for material wellbeing --this " haste to be happy " -is by no means confined to the 26 FRANCE SINCE 1848 .
... ciations of the past , as remorselessly as did the daughter of Servius over the scarce lifeless body of her father . This passion for material wellbeing --this " haste to be happy " -is by no means confined to the 26 FRANCE SINCE 1848 .
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... material condition is the most unsatisfactory and incongruous , while the influence they exert on the fortunes of the country is the most powerful . Their life is a combination of re- volting contrasts , a feverish and perpetual ...
... material condition is the most unsatisfactory and incongruous , while the influence they exert on the fortunes of the country is the most powerful . Their life is a combination of re- volting contrasts , a feverish and perpetual ...
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... material felicity , for the realisation of an earthly paradise . The degree to which this universal and insatiable thirst for present and immediate enjoyment , and the schemes , associations , and ambitions to which it gives rise , must ...
... material felicity , for the realisation of an earthly paradise . The degree to which this universal and insatiable thirst for present and immediate enjoyment , and the schemes , associations , and ambitions to which it gives rise , must ...
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... materials of their plot ; criminals , black with every enormity which we hold most loathsome , are the picked and chosen favourites . of the play - wright and the novelist ; scenes , which the pure and refined mind shrinks even to dream ...
... materials of their plot ; criminals , black with every enormity which we hold most loathsome , are the picked and chosen favourites . of the play - wright and the novelist ; scenes , which the pure and refined mind shrinks even to dream ...
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