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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: standings, through whatever dangers they may pass from excess of thought, are liable to be finally borne down by it. They seize upon every help, and acquire the habit of conquest. But I suspect Collins to have been not only of a race overstocked with passion, but a spoiled child, habituated to the earliest indulgence of his feelings; and the infirmity may have become so strong for him as to render such a piece of self- denial at once the most painful and most reasonable of his actions. One retires with reverence before the possibility of such a trial of virtue; and can only end with hoping that the spirit which has given such delight to mankind is now itself delighted. A FACT. The powers of the printing-press are very extraordinary; yet the imaginations even of the dull can outstrip them. A woman, I have been told, absolutely went into a bookseller's shop, said she was going farther, and requested to have a Bible which should be small in size, large in type, and printed by the time she came back. It was to a similar application that a bookseller replied: I see what you want, madam; a pint- pot that will hold a quart. More things of this kind have been related, probably with truth; for there are as many strange truths of ignorance as of knowledge. THE TWO CONQUERORS. When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, vincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity, he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit; and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils. CLERIOAL TITLES. It is a pity that the clergy do not give up the solemn trifling of some of their titles. Their titular scale...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217056670 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217056679 |
| Weight | 0.50 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 146 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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