 In short, you must not attempt to enlarge your ideas, or polish your taste, or refine your sentiments ; but must keep on, in one beaten track, without turning aside, either to the right hand or to the left. ' But I cannot submit to drudgery like this....  The Rhode Island Educational Magazine - Page 179edited by - 1852Full view - About this book
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...either to the right hand or to the left. ' But I cannot submit to drudgery like this — I feel a spirit above it.' 'Tis well : be above it, then ; only do not repine that you are not rich. ' But is it not some reproach upon the economy of Providence that such a one, who' is a mean, ignorant... | |
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 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1902 - 534 pages
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 | Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner - Readers - 1910 - 298 pages
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 | Charles Clinton Peters - Psychology, Applied - 1918 - 460 pages
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