The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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He has devoted his life to the pursuit of abstract and general truths , and to those studies “ That waft a thought from Indus to the Pole "and has never mixed himself up with personal intrigues or party politics .
He has devoted his life to the pursuit of abstract and general truths , and to those studies “ That waft a thought from Indus to the Pole "and has never mixed himself up with personal intrigues or party politics .
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A man may be callous and indifferent to what happens to himself ; but he is never indifferent to public opinion , or proof against open scorn and infamy . Shame , then , not fear , is the sheet - anchor of the law .
A man may be callous and indifferent to what happens to himself ; but he is never indifferent to public opinion , or proof against open scorn and infamy . Shame , then , not fear , is the sheet - anchor of the law .
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The man can never be himself again ! A citizen is like a soldier , a part of a machine , who submits to certain hardships , privations , and dangers , not for his own ease , pleasure , profit , or even conscience , but-- for shame .
The man can never be himself again ! A citizen is like a soldier , a part of a machine , who submits to certain hardships , privations , and dangers , not for his own ease , pleasure , profit , or even conscience , but-- for shame .
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Miracles never cease , to be sure ; but they are not to be had wholesale , or to order . Mr. Owen , who is another of these proprietors and patentees of reform , has lately got an American savage with him , whom he carries about in ...
Miracles never cease , to be sure ; but they are not to be had wholesale , or to order . Mr. Owen , who is another of these proprietors and patentees of reform , has lately got an American savage with him , whom he carries about in ...
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People wonder that Mr. Bentham has not been prosecuted for the boldness and severity of some of his invectives . He might wrap up high treason in one of his inextricable periods , and it would never find its way into Westminster - Hall ...
People wonder that Mr. Bentham has not been prosecuted for the boldness and severity of some of his invectives . He might wrap up high treason in one of his inextricable periods , and it would never find its way into Westminster - Hall ...
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