The Ways of Life: Showing the Right Way and Wrong Way, Contrasting the High Way and the Low Way, the True Way and the False Way, the Upward Way and the Downward Way, the Way of Honor and the Way of Dishonor |
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Page vii
... Appears and what Is - We See the Forms , but not the Spirit of Things- Things and their Meaning - We Swim on the Surface - Immortality - Life and Power Lie in the Unseen - Things Change , Laws are Immutable , Nations De- cay , but the ...
... Appears and what Is - We See the Forms , but not the Spirit of Things- Things and their Meaning - We Swim on the Surface - Immortality - Life and Power Lie in the Unseen - Things Change , Laws are Immutable , Nations De- cay , but the ...
Page 38
... appear greater . The fortunate make game of the misfortunes of their neighbors . The rising kick the falling as they go down . It is on land as it is in the sea : the great fish eat the smaller ; the smaller eat the minnows ; the ...
... appear greater . The fortunate make game of the misfortunes of their neighbors . The rising kick the falling as they go down . It is on land as it is in the sea : the great fish eat the smaller ; the smaller eat the minnows ; the ...
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... appear- ance of honesty on his face , and the liar is thunderstruck if any body suspects him of equivocation . The bankrupt carries about him the insignia of wealth . The fop puts on the masquerade of dignity and importance , and the ...
... appear- ance of honesty on his face , and the liar is thunderstruck if any body suspects him of equivocation . The bankrupt carries about him the insignia of wealth . The fop puts on the masquerade of dignity and importance , and the ...
Page 45
... appear wise . Unlettered men mouth hard words and guess at erudition , and puff themselves up to the bursting point with scholastic dignity . They try to conceal their ignorance with as many feats of show as a master of jugglery can ...
... appear wise . Unlettered men mouth hard words and guess at erudition , and puff themselves up to the bursting point with scholastic dignity . They try to conceal their ignorance with as many feats of show as a master of jugglery can ...
Page 46
... appear more than it really is , makes manifest the hollow form of show . Ambitiously paraded crudities look badly . Their show excites laughter in mirthful minds , disgust in minds of strong honesty , and pity in those of benevolence ...
... appear more than it really is , makes manifest the hollow form of show . Ambitiously paraded crudities look badly . Their show excites laughter in mirthful minds , disgust in minds of strong honesty , and pity in those of benevolence ...
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