Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is ...
... manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is ...
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... manner of persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their ...
... manner of persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their ...
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... manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon , and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are compositions of the the books of all ages . 14 ESSAY 1 .
... manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon , and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are compositions of the the books of all ages . 14 ESSAY 1 .
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... 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.
... 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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... manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add . The trivial experience of every day is always veri- fying some old prediction to us , and converting into things the words and signs which ...
... manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add . The trivial experience of every day is always veri- fying some old prediction to us , and converting into things the words and signs which ...
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