Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 41
... hope . Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string . Accept the place the divine providence has found for you , the society of your contemporaries , the connection of events . Great men have always done so , and confided ...
... hope . Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string . Accept the place the divine providence has found for you , the society of your contemporaries , the connection of events . Great men have always done so , and confided ...
Page 45
... hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then , again , do not tell me , as a good man did to - day , of my obligation ...
... hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then , again , do not tell me , as a good man did to - day , of my obligation ...
Page 52
... hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency . Let the words be ga- zetted and ridiculous henceforward . Instead of the gong for dinner , let us hear a whistle from the Spar- A tan fife . Let us never bow and ...
... hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency . Let the words be ga- zetted and ridiculous henceforward . Instead of the gong for dinner , let us hear a whistle from the Spar- A tan fife . Let us never bow and ...
Page 60
... hope are alike beneath it . There is somewhat low even in hope . In the hour of vision , there is nothing that can be called grat- itude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation , per ...
... hope are alike beneath it . There is somewhat low even in hope . In the hour of vision , there is nothing that can be called grat- itude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation , per ...
Page 71
... hope of find- ing somewhat greater than he knows . He who travels to be amused , or to get somewhat which he does not carry , travels away from himself , and grows old even in youth among old things . In Thebes , in Palmyra , his will ...
... hope of find- ing somewhat greater than he knows . He who travels to be amused , or to get somewhat which he does not carry , travels away from himself , and grows old even in youth among old things . In Thebes , in Palmyra , his will ...
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