Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 14
... faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some ...
... faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some ...
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... face is a confused blur of features , but composed of incorrupt , sharply defined , and symmetrical features , whose eye - sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint , and take furtive glances on this side ...
... face is a confused blur of features , but composed of incorrupt , sharply defined , and symmetrical features , whose eye - sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint , and take furtive glances on this side ...
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... face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts , namely , that the ...
... face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts , namely , that the ...
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... face , one character , one fact , makes much impression on him , and another none . This sculp- ture in the memory is not without preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that ...
... face , one character , one fact , makes much impression on him , and another none . This sculp- ture in the memory is not without preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that ...
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... and advancing on Chaos and the Dark . What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text , in the face and behaviour of children , babes , and even brutes ! That divided and rebel mind , that distrust SELF - RELIANCE . 41.
... and advancing on Chaos and the Dark . What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text , in the face and behaviour of children , babes , and even brutes ! That divided and rebel mind , that distrust SELF - RELIANCE . 41.
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