The Tin Trumpet: Or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and Waggish |
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... moral hydrophobia within . Pleasant to see an im - puritan of this stamp holding his nose , lest the wind should come between an honest scavenger and his gentility , while his own character stinks in the public nostrils . Oh , if the ...
... moral hydrophobia within . Pleasant to see an im - puritan of this stamp holding his nose , lest the wind should come between an honest scavenger and his gentility , while his own character stinks in the public nostrils . Oh , if the ...
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... moral combination that produces a superior performer , as will at once appear if we compare the best ama- teur with a second or even a third - rate professional actor . What miserable mummery are private theatricals ! At those given ...
... moral combination that produces a superior performer , as will at once appear if we compare the best ama- teur with a second or even a third - rate professional actor . What miserable mummery are private theatricals ! At those given ...
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... moral bitters , which frequently restore the healthy tone of the mind , after it has been cloyed and sickened by the sweets of prosperity . The spoilt children of the world , like their juvenile namesakes , are generally a source of ...
... moral bitters , which frequently restore the healthy tone of the mind , after it has been cloyed and sickened by the sweets of prosperity . The spoilt children of the world , like their juvenile namesakes , are generally a source of ...
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... moral and intellectual , rather than their baptismal recommendations ; as a philosopher of fifty is preferred , by all those whose preference is worth having , to a fool of twenty , there is something very contemptible in a male horror ...
... moral and intellectual , rather than their baptismal recommendations ; as a philosopher of fifty is preferred , by all those whose preference is worth having , to a fool of twenty , there is something very contemptible in a male horror ...
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... moral power , which tends to repair the inequalities of physical power , and to approximate the strong and the weak towards the same level . So carefully , however , are our constitutional instincts guarded against abuse , that the moral ...
... moral power , which tends to repair the inequalities of physical power , and to approximate the strong and the weak towards the same level . So carefully , however , are our constitutional instincts guarded against abuse , that the moral ...
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