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... . To him the material was the unreal , and things were definitions of the ideas of God . He seemed to think that he had made a discovery when he found that ideas were back of words , and that language had a subjective as well as an ( 7 )
... . To him the material was the unreal , and things were definitions of the ideas of God . He seemed to think that he had made a discovery when he found that ideas were back of words , and that language had a subjective as well as an ( 7 )
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... thing detract- ing from the value of this report is , that if there is a hell , we know without visiting the place ... things that have in some way affected the condition of mankind , Spencer IO MISCELLANY .
... thing detract- ing from the value of this report is , that if there is a hell , we know without visiting the place ... things that have in some way affected the condition of mankind , Spencer IO MISCELLANY .
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... things ; that they are relations , not entities , and that they cannot exist , so far as we know , apart from human experience . It may be that men will finally see that selfishness and self - sacrifice are both mistakes ; that the ...
... things ; that they are relations , not entities , and that they cannot exist , so far as we know , apart from human experience . It may be that men will finally see that selfishness and self - sacrifice are both mistakes ; that the ...
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... thing that can be done is to destroy a monarchy . Paine had a sense of justice , and had imagination enough to put himself in the place of the oppressed . He had , also , what in these pages is so felicitously expressed , " a haughty ...
... thing that can be done is to destroy a monarchy . Paine had a sense of justice , and had imagination enough to put himself in the place of the oppressed . He had , also , what in these pages is so felicitously expressed , " a haughty ...
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... thing I have ever read : " The only mode of procuring the service of others , on any large scale , in the absence of money , is by force , which is slavery . Money , by constitu- ting a medium in which the smallest services can be paid ...
... thing I have ever read : " The only mode of procuring the service of others , on any large scale , in the absence of money , is by force , which is slavery . Money , by constitu- ting a medium in which the smallest services can be paid ...
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الصفحة 250 - Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you," applies to all who would help others to gain their liberty.
الصفحة 391 - Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word, but in the night of death, hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
الصفحة 391 - ... can hear the rustle of a wing. He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath,
الصفحة 14 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
الصفحة 400 - The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest. We know that through the common wants of life — the needs and duties of each hour — their grief will lessen day by day, until at last this grave will be to them a place of rest and peace — almost of joy. There is for them this consolation : The dead do not suffer. If they live again, their lives will surely be as good as ours. We have no fear. We are all children of the...
الصفحة 390 - ... lay down by the wayside, and, using his burden for a pillow, fell into that dreamless sleep that kisses down his eyelids still. While yet in love with life and raptured with the world he passed to silence and pathetic dust.
الصفحة 429 - What custom wills, in all things should we do't The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heaped For truth to over-peer.— CorManus.
الصفحة 390 - He added to the sum of human joy, and were everyone to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep to-night beneath a wilderness of flowers "Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights.
الصفحة 389 - I am going to do that which the dead often promised he would do for me. The loved and loving brother, husband, father, friend, died where manhood's morning almost touches noon, and while the shadows still were falling towards the West.