Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... look for allusions personal and laudatory in dis- course . He hears the commendation , not of him- self , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea , further , in every fact and ...
... look for allusions personal and laudatory in dis- course . He hears the commendation , not of him- self , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea , further , in every fact and ...
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... look at it , its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of ser- vitude in the lower races ...
... look at it , its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of ser- vitude in the lower races ...
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... that “ common souls pay with what they do ; nobler souls with that which they are . And why ? Because a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its " " very looks and manners , the same power and beau- HISTORY . 15.
... that “ common souls pay with what they do ; nobler souls with that which they are . And why ? Because a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its " " very looks and manners , the same power and beau- HISTORY . 15.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. very looks and manners , the same power and beau- ty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , ad- dresses . - Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. very looks and manners , the same power and beau- ty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , ad- dresses . - Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual ...
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... look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all conform to it , so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it . So God has armed youth and puberty and man- hood no ...
... look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all conform to it , so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it . So God has armed youth and puberty and man- hood no ...
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