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Page 127
... mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession . No man would be a Judge , upon the condition of being totally a Judge . The best employed lawyer has his mind at work but for a small pro- portion of his time : a great deal ...
... mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession . No man would be a Judge , upon the condition of being totally a Judge . The best employed lawyer has his mind at work but for a small pro- portion of his time : a great deal ...
Page 129
... mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession . No man would be a Judge , upon the condition of being totally a Judge . The best employed lawyer has his mind at work but for a small pro- portion of his time : a great deal ...
... mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession . No man would be a Judge , upon the condition of being totally a Judge . The best employed lawyer has his mind at work but for a small pro- portion of his time : a great deal ...
Page 400
... mind grows narrow in a narrow place , whose mind is enlarged only because he has lived in a large place : but what is got by books and thinking is preserved in a narrow place as well as in a large place . A man cannot know modes of life ...
... mind grows narrow in a narrow place , whose mind is enlarged only because he has lived in a large place : but what is got by books and thinking is preserved in a narrow place as well as in a large place . A man cannot know modes of life ...
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