The Man, Volume 1,Nummer 1

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R.E. Lee, 7 jul 1833
 

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Pagina 113 - To its idolatries a patient knee, — Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles,— nor cried aloud In worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them ; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could, Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued.
Pagina 155 - ... the appellation of benevolence,) these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that, if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ate the coarse morsel with a double relish.
Pagina 41 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that ; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Pagina 82 - A NATION must be truly blessed if it were governed by no other laws than those of this blessed book ; it is so complete a system, that nothing can be added to it, or taken from it...
Pagina 155 - ... 911,500 canings, 121,000 floggings, 209,000 custodes, 136,000 tips with the ruler, 10,200 boxes on the ear, and 22,700 tasks by heart.
Pagina 82 - In short, it is a book of laws to show right and wrong ; a book of wisdom, that condemns all folly, and makes the foolish wise; a book of truth, that detects all lies, and confutes all errors ; and a book of life, that shows the way from everlasting death. It is the most compendious book in all the world ; the most authentic, and the most entertaining...
Pagina 72 - Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government — a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with...
Pagina 78 - Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man : without liberty no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Pagina 158 - ... night's rest, after a long day's labour, the child, to ensure punctuality, must be often roused much too early. Whoever has lived in a manufacturing town, must have heard, if he happened to be awake many hours before light on a winter's morning, the patter of little pattens on the pavement, continuing perhaps for half an hour together, though the time appointed for assembling was the same.
Pagina 155 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer; with man it has often been otherwise.

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