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501 41| macadamized, as it were - its foundation broken into fragments for 502 41| its foundation broken into fragments for the wheels of travel 503 19| fellow in the saloons of San Francisco. What difference does it 504 26| Mason, and that Sir John Franklin was another. But it was 505 43| grant that the American has freed himself from a political 506 42| rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge 507 15| Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those 508 13| supported by the charity of friends, or a government pension - 509 29| acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners 510 30| under the serpent. For all fruit of that stir we have the 511 49| operatives, but men - those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, 512 27| come from attending the funeral of mankind to attend to 513 33| insignificant as the sporules of fungi, and impinge on some neglected 514 20| the locality to which men furiously rush to probe for their 515 7| merciful whip, while they gained their length on him. And 516 22| about, generally at full gallop, and, when he met people, 517 19| the mountains is as much a gambler as his fellow in the saloons 518 20| travellers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary 519 8| called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe. As for my 520 18| God gave the righteous man a certificate 521 21| has not this for more than geologic ages been bringing down 522 44| it to be free from King George and continue the slaves 523 25| sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are more unfortunate 524 18| as wit. A grain of gold gild a great surface, but not 525 40| consecrated to the service of the gods? I find it so difficult 526 19| mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a 527 20| account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening, I had in my 528 21| Does not a stream from the golden mountains flow through our 529 5| enterprise of our own or foreign governments, however amusing it may 530 25| the age, tell me, with a gracious, reminiscent smile, betwixt 531 23| in the legislature of New Granada, regulating this kind of 532 16| indifference, or by assuming grand airs? or find it easier 533 29| rest on an underpinning of granitic truth, the lowest primitive 534 43| that is meant. Even if we grant that the American has freed 535 52| society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties 536 14| as the Orientals say, "Greatness doth not approach him who 537 52| quarters, it may be, which grind on each other. Not only 538 16| she merely the miller who grinds the finest logic? It is 539 52| gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two 540 44| ourselves. We quarter our gross bodies on our poor souls, 541 25| heard on these subjects was grovelling. The burden of it was - 542 25| the devil's angels. As we grow old, we live more coarsely, 543 14| who are looking high are growing poor."~ ~ 544 10| confidence proposed to me, a grown man, to embark in some enterprise 545 33| them, and hence a parasitic growth. We should wash ourselves 546 23| prospected, no doubt other rich guacas [that is, graveyards] will 547 42| ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what 548 23| taken from the "Burker's Guide." And he concludes with 549 40| bar - if I may presume him guilty before he is convicted - 550 22| Jackass Flat" - "Sheep's-Head Gully" - "Murderer's Bar," etc. 551 40| after a few titillating gyrations in their coggy brains, passed 552 41| permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial 553 29| however; for we do not habitually demand any more of each 554 52| I sometimes awake to a half-consciousness of them going on about me, 555 10| me! As if he had met me half-way across the ocean beating 556 52| parties are its two opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters, 557 17| gentleman who scatters a handful of pennies in order to see 558 17| will be, that mankind will hang itself upon a tree. And 559 1| as delighted, when this happens, it is such a rare use he 560 5| me as an industrious and hard-working man; but if I choose to 561 28| about. The lecture was as harmless as moonshine to them. Whereas, 562 30| stir we have the Kossuth hat.~ ~ 563 40| when they took off their hats, their ears suddenly expanded 564 5| powers have put this into his head to keep him out of mischief, 565 40| which even their narrow heads were crowded. Like the vanes 566 33| involved in the explosion? In health we have not the least curiosity 567 41| Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall 568 1| things not in or near to his heart, but toward his extremities 569 47| professions. We have heard of heaven-born Numas, Lycurguses, and Solons, 570 7| which was slowly drawing a heavy hewn stone swung under the 571 35| I look down from my height on nations,~ ~ 572 13| come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be 573 5| board, and leave for his heirs to spend foolishly. If I 574 42| passes through the mind helps to wear and tear it, and 575 | hence 576 | here 577 49| Lieutenant Herndon, whom our government sent 578 49| those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, 579 7| was slowly drawing a heavy hewn stone swung under the axle, 580 20| across lots will turn out the higher way of the two.~ ~ 581 30| together on nothing; as the Hindoos made the world rest on an 582 34| insects, they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make 583 14| that his marks can all be hit by point-blank shots, but 584 10| been a complete failure hitherto. What a doubtful compliment 585 33| twenty-five years, you should meet Hobbins, Registrar of Deeds, again 586 17| dust of a puffball. The hog that gets his living by 587 48| flies about a molasses - hogshead. Very well, observes one, 588 28| in which they appear to hold stock - that is, some particular, 589 15| getting a living not merely holiest and honorable, but altogether 590 31| Just so hollow and ineffectual, for the 591 29| one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes 592 20| for thirty miles, suddenly honeycombed by the pits of the miners, 593 15| living not merely holiest and honorable, but altogether inviting 594 26| bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have 595 22| nugget. Howitt adds, "He is a hopelessly ruined man." But he is a 596 40| suddenly expanded into vast hoppers for sound, between which 597 14| very slight angle to the horizon. I should much rather be 598 22| soon began to drink; got a horse, and rode all about, generally 599 40| sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to 600 29| the underpinning of our houses and barns; we build fences 601 47| importation of tobacco? what humane ones with the breeding of 602 19| hard in many respects. The humblest observer who goes to the 603 20| the miners, so that even hundreds are drowned in them - standing 604 15| what she has done. Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my 605 34| are nations? Tartars, and Huns, and Chinamen! Like insects, 606 42| with it, as if we were all husk and shell, with no tender 607 40| quarter of heaven itself - an hypaethral temple, consecrated to the 608 49| native Virginia, nor the ice and granite and other material 609 47| names at least may stand for ideal legislators; but think of 610 5| inclined to look on me as an idler. Nevertheless, as I do not 611 7| reproach to all sluggards and idlers - pausing abreast the shoulders 612 22| names? Let them carry their ill-gotten wealth where they will, 613 25| Most reverend seniors, the illuminati of the age, tell me, with 614 49| more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then 615 40| only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, 616 52| expresses itself, you can imagine by what sort of eloquence. 617 29| finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there 618 17| startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common 619 29| To speak impartially, the best men that I know 620 33| the sporules of fungi, and impinge on some neglected thallus, 621 47| with the exportation or the importation of tobacco? what humane 622 51| reader, to vote for it - more importunate than an Italian beggar; 623 17| of the human race only an improved muck-rake? Is this the ground 624 42| are at length as had as impurities. Even the facts of science 625 4| chiefly because he was thus incapacitated for business! I think that 626 4| to life itself, than this incessant business.~ ~ 627 33| Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily 628 13| have been greater than his income. In the Catholic Church, 629 12| my wants should be much increased, the labor required to supply 630 51| to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read 631 4| seared out of his wits by the Indians, it is regretted chiefly 632 16| over some of them merely by indifference, or by assuming grand airs? 633 15| living, it is wonderful how indifferent men of all classes are about 634 15| never disturbed a solitary individual's musings. Is it that men 635 7| surrounded by an atmosphere of industry - his day's work begun - 636 31| Just so hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our 637 11| inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and 638 11| pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency 639 23| appears to be but in its infancy; for, according to late 640 4| out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for 641 4| place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost 642 22| he was, and then kindly informed them that he was 'the bloody 643 52| physical body. They are infrahuman, a kind of vegetation. I 644 42| ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians 645 49| and earnest purpose in its inhabitants. This alone draws out "the 646 26| problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover 647 15| so called - whether they inherit, or earn, or steal it. I 648 51| something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have 649 40| very bar-room of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so 650 25| starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting 651 42| that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, 652 22| met people, called out to inquire if they knew who he was, 653 28| church. Ordinarily, the inquiry is, Where did you come from? 654 34| Huns, and Chinamen! Like insects, they swarm. The historian 655 46| me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his 656 41| the town sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes 657 | instead 658 25| cease to obey our finest instincts. But we should be fastidious 659 7| Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ 660 41| with triviality. Our very intellect shall be macadamized, as 661 16| is only more cunning and intellectually subtle? Does Wisdom work 662 46| contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the 663 7| beside a whimsical structure intended to adorn this Lord Timothy 664 51| and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to 665 48| on precisely this kind of interchange and activity - the activity 666 46| consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs 667 23| THERE," which may fairly be interpreted to mean, "If you are getting 668 4| panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. 669 8| cord-wood, and tried to introduce it in Boston; but the measurer 670 46| if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, 671 40| most insignificant kind to intrude on ground which should be 672 8| is most correct. I once invented a rule for measuring cord-wood, 673 17| last and most admirable invention of the human race only an 674 1| it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere - for 675 15| honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting 676 33| if there is no character involved in the explosion? In health 677 46| for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance - 678 4| for dollars and cents. An Irishman, seeing me making a minute 679 7| band, doing the needful but irksome drudgery. Indeed, I felt 680 51| more importunate than an Italian beggar; and if I have a 681 23| concludes with this line in Italics and small capitals: "If 682 12| Perhaps I am more than usually jealous with respect to my freedom. 683 17| did not make this world in jest. It makes God to be a moneyed 684 9| his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a 685 26| was a Mason, and that Sir John Franklin was another. But 686 45| not metropolitan - mere Jonathans. We are provincial, because 687 40| jury and the counsel, the judge and the criminal at the 688 40| auditors and the witnesses, the jury and the counsel, the judge 689 26| unfortunate discovery that Dr. Kane was a Mason, and that Sir 690 42| with no tender and living kernel to us? Shall our institutions 691 22| knew who he was, and then kindly informed them that he was ' 692 41| By all kinds of traps and signboards, 693 51| world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging 694 46| days - mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small-clothes, out of 695 51| government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the 696 20| shall break ground - not knowing but the gold is under their 697 42| fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, 698 9| economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would 699 33| to ask why such stress is laid on a particular experience 700 23| infancy; for, according to late accounts, an act has passed 701 8| more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to 702 30| banded together, as usual one leaning on another, and all together 703 12| me there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust 704 48| dangers of the sea between Leghorn and New York for the sake 705 47| legislators; but think of legislating to regulate the breeding 706 47| Government and legislation! these I thought were respectable 707 23| its second reading in the legislature of New Granada, regulating 708 51| hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, 709 4| glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing 710 15| experience to speak of it? The lesson of value which money teaches, 711 29| not teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity 712 31| with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive 713 14| one is satisfied with a level success, that his marks 714 28| who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud 715 42| worldly wealth, or fame, or liberty, and make a false show with 716 13| start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking 717 21| opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther 718 49| Lieutenant Herndon, whom our government 719 17| wealth of all the worlds by lifting my finger, I would not pay 720 23| And he concludes with this line in Italics and small capitals: " 721 6| danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole 722 20| filled with water - the locality to which men furiously rush 723 4| night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. 724 34| may say with the Spirit of Lodin-~ ~ 725 16| miller who grinds the finest logic? It is pertinent to ask 726 7| structure intended to adorn this Lord Timothy Dexter's premises, 727 25| better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process 728 19| you win, society is the loser. The gold-digger is the 729 48| wrecked, and many lives lost, and her cargo of rags, 730 20| His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher 731 12| must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the 732 29| underpinning of granitic truth, the lowest primitive rock. Our sills 733 17| many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of 734 17| the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any 735 40| observe how willing men are to lumber their minds with such rubbish - 736 17| perchance, reward us with lumps of gold?~ ~ 737 49| encouraged? Not the love of luxuries, like the tobacco and slaves 738 1| AT A LYCEUM, not long since, I felt 739 28| windows, I say! In some lyceums they tell me that they have 740 47| heard of heaven-born Numas, Lycurguses, and Solons, in the history 741 7| the stone of the morning lying beside a whimsical structure 742 41| very intellect shall be macadamized, as it were - its foundation 743 26| There is not a popular magazine in this country that would 744 17| such a price for it. Even Mahomet knew that God did not make 745 16| that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real 746 45| respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial 747 7| exists to protect - honest, manly toil - honest as the day 748 45| to trade and commerce and manufactures and agriculture and the 749 51| government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If 750 14| level success, that his marks can all be hit by point-blank 751 26| discovery that Dr. Kane was a Mason, and that Sir John Franklin 752 34| but to your own affairs in Massachusetts fields. If you chance to 753 32| me. You cannot serve two masters. It requires more than a 754 5| hill along the edge of his meadow. The powers have put this 755 5| do not need the police of meaningless labor to regulate me, and 756 43| political sense that is meant. Even if we grant that the 757 8| introduce it in Boston; but the measurer there told me that the sellers 758 8| once invented a rule for measuring cord-wood, and tried to 759 31| ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases 760 34| strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man 761 51| perchance, by some benevolent merchant's clerk, or the skipper 762 7| round with a flourish of his merciful whip, while they gained 763 12| sell my birthright for a mess of pottage. I wish to suggest 764 51| read a single President's Message. A strange age of the world 765 15| to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and 766 45| essentially provincial still, not metropolitan - mere Jonathans. We are 767 16| life? Is she merely the miller who grinds the finest logic? 768 11| enough to hire a man who is minding his own business. An efficient 769 20| honeycombed by the pits of the miners, so that even hundreds are 770 19| observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging 771 23| regulating this kind of mining; and a correspondent of 772 4| Irishman, seeing me making a minute in the fields, took it for 773 5| head to keep him out of mischief, and he wishes me to spend 774 20| strike the vein, or then missing it by a foot - turned into 775 17| trade, and all the common modes of getting a living. The 776 48| activity of flies about a molasses - hogshead. Very well, observes 777 5| a coarse and boisterous money-making fellow in the outskirts 778 17| jest. It makes God to be a moneyed gentleman who scatters a 779 20| goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork 780 28| lecture was as harmless as moonshine to them. Whereas, if I had 781 52| processes of digestion in a morbid state, and so have the dyspepsia, 782 48| well, answer I, if men were mosquitoes.~ ~ 783 34| If you chance to live and move and have your being in that 784 17| human race only an improved muck-rake? Is this the ground on which 785 20| water, and covered with mud and clay, they work night 786 8| is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe. 787 15| a solitary individual's musings. Is it that men are too 788 29| do. The fault is commonly mutual, however; for we do not 789 45| because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion 790 44| which we boast? We are a nation of politicians, concerned 791 27| of mankind to attend to a natural phenomenon. A little thought 792 49| beyond her resources; for man naturally dies out of her. When we 793 46| why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they 794 43| senate charged its consuls, "ne quid res-PRIVATA detrimenti 795 42| farthest brink of time to the nearest shore of eternity! Have 796 22| speed against a tree, and nearly knocked his brains out." 797 23| pair of blankets will be necessary; a pick, shovel, and axe 798 12| reminded that they are a necessity. So far I am successful. 799 5| Nevertheless, as I do not need the police of meaningless 800 7| the sacred band, doing the needful but irksome drudgery. Indeed, 801 33| fungi, and impinge on some neglected thallus, or surface of our 802 51| Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, 803 47| has He no children in the Nineteenth Century? is it a family 804 12| said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the 805 7| sunrise, one summer morning, I noticed one of my neighbors walking 806 | nowhere 807 21| particles and forming the nuggets for us? Yet, strange to 808 47| have heard of heaven-born Numas, Lycurguses, and Solons, 809 31| walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his 810 20| mind's eye, all night, the numerous valleys, with their streams, 811 25| to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. But 812 12| that my connection with and obligation to society are still very 813 19| many respects. The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees 814 48| molasses - hogshead. Very well, observes one, if men were oysters. 815 19| where the fact is not so obvious.~ ~ 816 17| ground on which Orientals and Occidentals meet? Did God direct us 817 40| the dust of the street had occupied us - the very street itself, 818 10| met me half-way across the ocean beating up against the wind, 819 11| or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the 820 11| expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that 821 47| of tobacco? what humane ones with the breeding of slaves? 822 41| determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed. I 823 49| production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men - those rare fruits 824 7| labor, in my eyes. In my opinion, the sun was made to light 825 4| nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, 826 28| deacons of their church. Ordinarily, the inquiry is, Where did 827 13| finds, of course, that his outgoes have been greater than his 828 44| politicians, concerned about the outmost defences only of freedom. 829 5| money-making fellow in the outskirts of our town, who is going 830 51| of some Vesuvius, or the overflowing of some Po, true or forged, 831 28| pertinent question which I overheard one of my auditors put to 832 7| abreast the shoulders of his oxen, and half turning round 833 48| observes one, if men were oysters. And very well, answer I, 834 15| Universe has taken so much pains to teach us, we are inclined 835 23| with a tent; but a good pair of blankets will be necessary; 836 20| may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across 837 33| developments should be so paltry. The news we hear, for the 838 4| almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts 839 34| transpire - thinner than the paper on which it is printed - 840 33| basis for them, and hence a parasitic growth. We should wash ourselves 841 41| the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town 842 52| gravel, and the two political parties are its two opposite halves - 843 42| span by which we trust to pass at last from the farthest 844 42| Yes, every thought that passes through the mind helps to 845 7| of the town, and, after passing through Chancery, has settled 846 46| appear but as the fashions of past days - mere courtliness, 847 47| What ground is there for patriotism in such a State? I derive 848 7| there to become once more a patron of the arts.~ ~ 849 7| all sluggards and idlers - pausing abreast the shoulders of 850 41| will make the most durable pavement, surpassing rolled stones, 851 8| wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats 852 21| his whole life long in peace, for no one will ever dispute 853 9| certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy 854 42| them - had better let their peddling-carts be driven, even at the slowest 855 41| threatening the extreme penalty of the divine law, exclude 856 17| who scatters a handful of pennies in order to see mankind 857 13| friends, or a government pension - provided you continue 858 42| which contain abortive nuts, perfect only to prick the fingers?~ ~ 859 9| get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work; and, 860 52| should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding 861 41| believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of 862 8| popular, which is to go down perpendicularly. Those services which the 863 27| mankind to attend to a natural phenomenon. A little thought is sexton 864 52| corresponding functions of the physical body. They are infrahuman, 865 23| blankets will be necessary; a pick, shovel, and axe of good 866 4| This world is a place of business. What an infinite 867 22| some of the names of the places where they dig: "Jackass 868 34| above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor 869 33| consequence, though our planet explode, if there is no 870 12| by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the 871 16| It is pertinent to ask if Plato got his living in a better 872 12| contemporaries, are as yet commonly a pleasure to me, and I am not often 873 51| the overflowing of some Po, true or forged, which brought 874 49| fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.~ ~ 875 14| marks can all be hit by point-blank shots, but the other, however 876 44| boast? We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost 877 42| which, as in the streets of Pompeii, evince how much it has 878 51| what with preserving his popularity and doing his duty, is completely 879 34| It is individuals that populate the world. Any man thinking 880 49| an industrious and active population, who know what the comforts 881 10| sauntering in my native port, and as soon as I came of 882 21| cultivated and the uncultivated portions, his whole life long in 883 32| devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.~ ~ 884 26| more cruel suggestion that possibly that was the reason why 885 31| constantly and desperately to the post-office. You may depend on it, that 886 49| we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than 887 12| birthright for a mess of pottage. I wish to suggest that 888 22| which weighed twenty-eight pounds, at the Bendigo diggings 889 51| newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is 890 5| edge of his meadow. The powers have put this into his head 891 46| not the affairs of Rome. A praetor or proconsul would suffice 892 5| see anything absolutely praiseworthy in this fellow's undertaking 893 39| Pray, let us live without being 894 25| remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. 895 1| though I bore them beyond all precedent.~ ~ 896 17| a tree. And have all the precepts in all the Bibles taught 897 48| and civilization depend on precisely this kind of interchange 898 23| take the Isthmus route in preference to the Boca del Toro one; 899 44| continue the slaves of King Prejudice? What is it to be born free 900 7| this Lord Timothy Dexter's premises, and the dignity forthwith 901 10| buy them off from their present pursuit. I see advertisements 902 46| living creature. You are presented with the shells instead 903 51| poor President, what with preserving his popularity and doing 904 40| criminal at the bar - if I may presume him guilty before he is 905 16| other men? Did he seem to prevail over some of them merely 906 17| I would not pay such a price for it. Even Mahomet knew 907 42| abortive nuts, perfect only to prick the fingers?~ ~ 908 29| granitic truth, the lowest primitive rock. Our sills are rotten. 909 47| which these have been the principal, the staple productions? 910 19| seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, 911 26| country that would dare to print a child's thought on important 912 34| the paper on which it is printed - then these things will 913 1| have had him deal with his privatest experience, as the poet 914 51| English itself, I shall probably read of the eruption of 915 20| which men furiously rush to probe for their fortunes - uncertain 916 26| have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited 917 25| lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread. If 918 52| conscious of some of the processes of digestion in a morbid 919 46| affairs of Rome. A praetor or proconsul would suffice to settle 920 49| barrenness of soil which produces these. The chief want, in 921 49| and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, 922 47| the principal, the staple productions? What ground is there for 923 41| of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of 924 41| mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending 925 40| into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum 926 47| thought were respectable professions. We have heard of heaven-born 927 5| labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, 928 48| so blind as to think that progress and civilization depend 929 23| permit of the country being properly prospected, no doubt other 930 12| bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.~ ~ 931 31| tea, and we have not. In proportion as our inward life fails, 932 23| the country being properly prospected, no doubt other rich guacas [ 933 7| American Congress exists to protect - honest, manly toil - honest 934 31| greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, 935 19| ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the 936 13| or a government pension - provided you continue to breathe - 937 40| thought. Shall the mind be a public arena, where the affairs 938 47| the States themselves have published.~ ~ 939 17| not worth the dust of a puffball. The hog that gets his living 940 29| in our thought with the purest and subtilest truth? I often 941 20| sulky-gully? At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary 942 10| them off from their present pursuit. I see advertisements for 943 51| government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is 944 28| lecture for?" It made me quake in my shoes.~ ~ 945 52| halves - sometimes split into quarters, it may be, which grind 946 48| that whitens every sea in quest of nuts and raisins, and 947 46| would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention 948 43| charged its consuls, "ne quid res-PRIVATA detrimenti caperet," 949 17| admirable invention of the human race only an improved muck-rake? 950 17| scramble for them. The world's raffle! A subsistence in the domains 951 17| of Nature a thing to be raffled for! What a comment, what 952 48| lives lost, and her cargo of rags, juniper berries, and bitter 953 48| sea in quest of nuts and raisins, and makes slaves of its 954 52| submitted himself to be rasped by the great gizzard of 955 19| The gold-digger in the ravines of the mountains is as much 956 51| interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it - more importunate 957 8| the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable 958 17| mankind. That so many are ready to live by luck, and so 959 26| that possibly that was the reason why the former went in search 960 | recently 961 51| practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all. 962 42| wariness and devotion to reconsecrate ourselves, and make once 963 49| poets, philosophers, and redeemers.~ ~ 964 51| Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort 965 42| Have we no culture, no refinement - but skill only to live 966 17| called, in relation to it, reflect the greatest disgrace on 967 45| not worship truth, but the reflection of truth; because we are 968 25| your while to undertake to reform the world in this particular. 969 15| classes are about it, even reformers, so called - whether they 970 6| he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends 971 20| turned into demons, and regardless of each others' rights, 972 32| have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the 973 33| you should meet Hobbins, Registrar of Deeds, again on the sidewalk. 974 4| wits by the Indians, it is regretted chiefly because he was thus 975 23| legislature of New Granada, regulating this kind of mining; and 976 34| go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal 977 17| prophets, so called, in relation to it, reflect the greatest 978 13| synonyms you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse. 979 25| we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, 980 42| as who has not? - the remedy will be by wariness and 981 52| alas! to a great extent, a remembering, of that which we should 982 25| tell me, with a gracious, reminiscent smile, betwixt an aspiration 983 8| is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being 984 42| each morning, or rather rendered fertile by the dews of fresh 985 46| gentleman that ever breathed." I repeat that in this sense the most 986 33| genius. It is the stalest repetition. You are often tempted to 987 44| It is taxation without representation. We quarter troops, we quarter 988 44| part of us which is not represented. It is taxation without 989 43| moral tyrant. Now that the republic - the respublica - has been 990 51| when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private 991 32| cannot serve two masters. It requires more than a day's devotion 992 1| audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will 993 23| The last resource of our energy has been the 994 47| legislation! these I thought were respectable professions. We have heard 995 43| that the republic - the respublica - has been settled, it is 996 2| out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.~ ~ 997 41| is the profane and stale revelation of the bar-room and the 998 20| could walk with love and reverence. Wherever a man separates 999 25| excusing the ways of men. Most reverend seniors, the illuminati 1000 23| prospected, no doubt other rich guacas [that is, graveyards]