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Mental Discipline: With Reference to the Acquisition and Communication of ... - Page 106
by Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1847 - 320 pages
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Business Life. The experiences of a London tradesman ... Second edition

Business life - 1861 - 256 pages
...faculties in a state of determination, which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interest, and on which therefore the beauties of nature and of art...diverted among the innumerable varieties of the extensive scenes which he traversed; his subordinate feelings nearly lost their separate existence and operations,...
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The graduated series of reading-lesson books, Book 5

Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which therefore the beauties of nature and of art...diverted among the innumerable varieties of the extensive scenes which he traversed ; all his subordinate feelings lost their separate existence and operation,...
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Training school reader. [Ed.] by W.J. Unwin

William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 pages
...faculties in a state of determination, which was too .rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which therefore the beauties of nature and of art...varieties of the extensive scene which he traversed ; his subordinate feelings nearly lost their separate existence and operation, by falling into the...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties of nature and of art...existence and operation, by falling into the grand one. There have not been wanting trivial minds to mark this as a fault in his character. But the mere men...
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On Prison Discipline and Penal Legislation: With Special Reference to the ...

John Berrien Lindsley - 1874 - 66 pages
...faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties of nature and of art...existence and operation by falling into the grand one. There have not been wanting trivial minds to mark this as a fault in his character. But the mere men...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on amily? I can show the standards, the armour, and the...the scars of those wounds which I have received by f scenes which he traversed : all his subordinate feelings lost their separate existence and operation...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pages
...faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which therefore the beauties of nature and of art...power. He had no leisure feeling which he could spare tobe diverted among the innumerable varieties of the extensive scenes which he traversed : all his...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

1881 - 578 pages
...faculties in a state of determination which was tto rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on F r/ his subordinate feelings nearly lost their separate existence and operation by falling into the grand...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...be affected by lighter interests, and on «hich, therefore, the beauties of nature and of art had DO nd h j)7 his subordinate feelings nearly lost their separate existence and operation by falling into the grand...
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Papers on Indian Reform: Sanitary, Material, Social, Moral and Religious

1889 - 854 pages
...faculties iu a state of determination which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which therefore the beauties of nature and of art...varieties of the extensive scene which he traversed ; his subordinate feelings nearly lost their separate existence and operation, by falling into the...
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