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If seeing and acknowledging the lies of the world , Arthur , as see them you can with only too fatal a clear- ness , you submit to them without any protest farther than a laugh : if plunged yourself in easy sensuality , you allow the ...
If seeing and acknowledging the lies of the world , Arthur , as see them you can with only too fatal a clear- ness , you submit to them without any protest farther than a laugh : if plunged yourself in easy sensuality , you allow the ...
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Pagina 239 - ... :—I see the truth in that man, as I do in his brother, whose logic drives him to quite a different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavours to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares, with tearful eyes, and hands up to heaven, his revolt and recantation.
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Pagina 239 - ... than a laugh ; if, plunged yourself in easy sensuality, you allow the whole wretched world to pass groaning by you unmoved : if the fight for the truth is taking place, and all men of honour are on the ground armed on the one side or the other, and you alone are to lie on your balcony and smoke your pipe out of the noise and the danger, you had better have died, or never have been at all, than such a sensual coward.
Pagina 238 - ... is merely to follow out, in its progress, the development of the mind of a worldly and selfish, but not ungenerous or unkind, or truth-avoiding man. And it will be seen that the lamentable stage to which his logic at present has brought him...
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| Titel | The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 The History of Pendennis, William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Auteur | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Uitgever | Harper & Brothers, 1850 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Oxford University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 25 jan 2007 |
| Lengte | 392 pagina's |
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