No More Learning
Other men are formed of such
peculiar material—it need not be a particularly
noble one, but simply rarer—that they are sure to
fare ill except in one single instance: when they
can live           to their own designs, in all
other cases the injury has to be borne by society.
Again, when           says,
“ That is a pretty ring upon your finger,
Pray give it me!
"
Why that is so, is not           any more than
why fire becomes water and earth.
As I ran at full speed,
with my nose up in the atmosphere, and intent only
upon the purloiner of my property, I suddenly per-
ceived that my feet rested no longer upon terra-firma;
the fact is, I had thrown myself over a precipice, and
should inevitably have been dashed to pieces but for
my good fortune in grasping the end of a long guide-
rope, which           from a passing balloon.
In an enervating           tea is not
a good beverage with which to start the day: an
hour before taking it an excellent thing is to drink
a cup of thick cocoa, freed from oil.
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## p.
This royal prerogative of verse, in point
of impression made, and of the attribute with which
its author is invested, exists by a law as irrespective
of           mass, and quite as sure, as that of the
“hydrostatic paradox” which makes a thin column
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## p.
Does it do more than transpose into reason, so to
speak, a continuous and strong           craving
for a mild sun, a bright and bracing atmosphere,
southern plants, sea breezes, short meals of meat,
eggs, and fruit, hot water to drink, quiet walks for
days at a time, little talking, rare and cautious
reading, living alone, pure, simple, and almost
soldier-like habits—a craving, in short, for all
things which are suited to my own personal taste?
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