What is Man?: And Other EssaysHarper & Bros., 1917 - 375 páginas The Old Man had asserted that the human being is merely a machine and nothing more. |
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... original rock contained the stuff of which the steel one was built - but along with it a lot of sulphur and stone and other obstructing in- born heredities , brought down from the old geologic ages - prejudices , let us call them ...
... original rock contained the stuff of which the steel one was built - but along with it a lot of sulphur and stone and other obstructing in- born heredities , brought down from the old geologic ages - prejudices , let us call them ...
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... original thoughts , anyway ; there was no- body to draw from . O. M. It is a mistake . Adam's thoughts came to him from the outside . You have a fear of death . You did not invent that - you got it from outside , from talking and ...
... original thoughts , anyway ; there was no- body to draw from . O. M. It is a mistake . Adam's thoughts came to him from the outside . You have a fear of death . You did not invent that - you got it from outside , from talking and ...
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... original impulse , the real impulse , that moved him to so nobly self - sacrifice his family in the Sav- iour's cause under the superstition that he was sacri- ficing himself . I will read a chapter or so . Here we have it ! It was ...
... original impulse , the real impulse , that moved him to so nobly self - sacrifice his family in the Sav- iour's cause under the superstition that he was sacri- ficing himself . I will read a chapter or so . Here we have it ! It was ...
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... original impulse , the real impulse , which moved the obscure and unappreciated Adirondack lumberman to sacrifice his family and go on that crusade to the East Side - which said original impulse was this , to wit : without knowing it he ...
... original impulse , the real impulse , which moved the obscure and unappreciated Adirondack lumberman to sacrifice his family and go on that crusade to the East Side - which said original impulse was this , to wit : without knowing it he ...
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... original position : I place the Interior Master's requirements first , and keep them there . Y. M. If we grant , for the sake of argument , that your scheme and the other schemes aim at and pro- duce the same result - right living - has ...
... original position : I place the Interior Master's requirements first , and keep them there . Y. M. If we grant , for the sake of argument , that your scheme and the other schemes aim at and pro- duce the same result - right living - has ...
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Página 358 - Jesus' sake forbeare To digg the dust enclosed heare : Blest be ye man yt spares thes stones, And curst be he yt moves my bones.
Página 358 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 360 - Essays contain abundant proofs that no nice feature of character, no peculiarity in the ordering of a house, a garden, or a court-masque, could escape the notice of one whose mind was capable of taking in the whole world of knowledge.
Página 362 - And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like an insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.
Página 340 - While novelists and dramatists are constantly making mistakes as to the laws of marriage, of wills, and inheritance, to Shakespeare's law, lavishly as he expounds it, there can neither be demurrer, nor bill of exceptions, nor writ of error.
Página 54 - Diligently train your ideals upward and still upward toward a summit where you will find your chiefest pleasure in conduct which, while contenting you, will be sure to confer benefits upon your neighbor and the community.
Página 358 - ... emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
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Página 340 - I am amazed, not only by their number, but by the accuracy and propriety with which they are uniformly introduced. There is nothing so dangerous as for one not of the craft to tamper with our freemasonry.