Letters to Various Persons
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781154763997
Paperback|9781154763997
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...it is sleazy and frays out; it is not close-woven like cloth; but its meshes are a coarse net-work. A man can afford to lie only at the intersection of the threads; but truth puts in the filling, and makes a consistent stuff. I mean merely to suggest how much the station affects the demeanor and self-respectability of the parties, and that the difference between the judge's coat of cloth and the criminal's is insignificant, compared with, or only partially significant of, the difference between the coats which their respective stations permit them to wear. What airs the judge may put on over his coat which the criminal may not The judge's opinion (sententia) of the criminal sentences him, and is read by the clerk of the court, and published to the world, and executed by the sheriff; but the criminal's opinion of the judge has the weight of a sentence, and is published and executed only in the supreme court of the universe, --a court not of common pleas. How much juster is the one than the other? Men are continually sentencing each other; but, whether we be judges or criminals, the sentence is ineffectual unless we continue ourselves. I am glad to hear that I do not always limit your vision when you work this way; that you sometimes see the light through me; that I am here and there windows, and not all dead wall. Might not the community sometimes petition a man to remove himself as a nuisance, a darkener of the day, a too large mote? H. D. T. TO MS. B. Concord, August 8, 1854. Mr. B: --Methinks I have spent a rather unprofitable summer thus far. I have been too much with the world, as the poet might say. The cornpletest performance of the highest duties it imposes would yield me but little satisfaction. Better the neglect of all such, because your life passe...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154763997 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154763994 |
| Weight | 0.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.21 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 88 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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