Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 14
... particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and out ...
... particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and out ...
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... . 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 particular ray . We but half express ourselves , and are ashamed of 40 ESSAY II .
... . 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 particular ray . We but half express ourselves , and are ashamed of 40 ESSAY II .
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... particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the gener- al history ; I mean " the foolish face of praise , " the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not ...
... particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the gener- al history ; I mean " the foolish face of praise , " the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not ...
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... particular mir- acles disappear . If , therefore , a man claims to know and speak of God , and carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in anoth- er country , in another world , believe him not . Is the acorn ...
... particular mir- acles disappear . If , therefore , a man claims to know and speak of God , and carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in anoth- er country , in another world , believe him not . Is the acorn ...
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... particular commodity , any thing less than all good , is vicious . Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view . It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul . It is the spirit of God ...
... particular commodity , any thing less than all good , is vicious . Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view . It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul . It is the spirit of God ...
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