9/1/2023 0 Comments Life without principle torrent![]() ![]() They never will go to law for my meat they prefer the shell. Commonly, if men want anything of me, it is only to know how many acres I make of their land, - since I am a surveyor, - or, at most, what trivial news I have burdened myself with. I am surprised, as well as delighted, when this happens, it is such a rare use he would make of me, as if he were acquainted with the tool. The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. ![]() I would have had him deal with his privatest experience, as the poet does. There was, in this sense, no truly central or centralizing thought in the lecture. He described things not in or near to his heart, but toward his extremities and superficies. At a lyceum, not long since, I felt that the lecturer had chosen a theme too foreign to himself, and so failed to interest me as much as he might have done. ![]()
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