Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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Page 60
... future - those demons by which manhood is haunted - have not yet intruded ; where every thing is an exquisite enjoyment of presentness , and the rolling panorama of the world is beheld with all the keen relish that faculties , in their ...
... future - those demons by which manhood is haunted - have not yet intruded ; where every thing is an exquisite enjoyment of presentness , and the rolling panorama of the world is beheld with all the keen relish that faculties , in their ...
Page 62
... future fate and fortune of those whom I was embracing . Affecting speculation ! Is it possible that these vivacious beings , bounding about in an intoxication of delight from the mere luxury of existence , can become old , and querulous ...
... future fate and fortune of those whom I was embracing . Affecting speculation ! Is it possible that these vivacious beings , bounding about in an intoxication of delight from the mere luxury of existence , can become old , and querulous ...
Page 70
... future , but no one ever forms an import- ant determination for to - day . Whatever is urgent must be reserved for to - morrow ; the present hour is a digression , an episode that belongs not to the main business of life ; we may cut it ...
... future , but no one ever forms an import- ant determination for to - day . Whatever is urgent must be reserved for to - morrow ; the present hour is a digression , an episode that belongs not to the main business of life ; we may cut it ...
Page 74
... future , and will be the past . He is wise , says an ancient philoso- pher , who lives to - day : he is wiser still , exclaims his commentator , who lived yesterday . But what is the best mode of life for the attainment of happiness ...
... future , and will be the past . He is wise , says an ancient philoso- pher , who lives to - day : he is wiser still , exclaims his commentator , who lived yesterday . But what is the best mode of life for the attainment of happiness ...
Page 118
... future recurrence ; hence it is , that , not con- tent with assigning a higher moral stature to our an- cestors , we cling to the belief of their gigantic bodily proportions , despite of the evidence of history , of ske- letons , and of ...
... future recurrence ; hence it is , that , not con- tent with assigning a higher moral stature to our an- cestors , we cling to the belief of their gigantic bodily proportions , despite of the evidence of history , of ske- letons , and of ...
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