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...startling noise, and as they had always been told that it was dangerous to carry a gun on full cock, they really had not time to cock it and bring it to the shoulder before the birds had disappeared. These difficulties they had not foreseen, and could not exist in duck-shooting, which we determined to try that afternoon. But, alas for our high hopes, ducks there were none, and after an hour's shooting at a target, in hopes of attracting the birds, we returned home to sup off the ducks that little boy had shot...
...conclusion he comes to is given in the passage already quoted from him, in which he seems to side with those who think we should be better off here if we had no desires that could not be satisfied with terrestrial things, - a state which does not exist, even as Carlyle says in the passage I have quoted...
...social relations of College it has been a distinguished class, and the many relations of friendship which exist between its members and those of lower classes will be the least easily broken ties which unite them to us that remain...
...correct philosophical theory, his conclusions are by no means as satisfactory as the facts from which he obtains them. The inferences which he draws connect the mind so intimately with body, and make it so dependent upon the body for its action, that we cannot see how it could exist after or without it. The study of actions, as far as it tends to a better knowledge of the mind, is advantageous; but in some cases Mr. Bain seems to reduce the mind to those actions, or, rather, to consider mental phenomena the same as those of the body, except...
...calls to mind the ruinous civil war which was the occasion of this holiday. The day is to them a time for a pleasant ride or walk, flowers and peanuts. It seems rather hard to lay any part of the blame of the ill-feeling which is supposed to exist between the North and South on so innocent a holiday as this is known...