Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 11
... seen how it could and must be . We have the sufficient reason . The difference between men is in their principle of association . Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic ...
... seen how it could and must be . We have the sufficient reason . The difference between men is in their principle of association . Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic ...
Page 14
... seen the head of an old sachem of the forest , which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the ...
... seen the head of an old sachem of the forest , which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the ...
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... seen without heed . A lady , with whom I was riding in the forest , said to me , that the woods always seemed to her to wait , as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer has passed onward : a thought which ...
... seen without heed . A lady , with whom I was riding in the forest , said to me , that the woods always seemed to her to wait , as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer has passed onward : a thought which ...
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... seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light ... seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they ...
... seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light ... seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they ...
Page 18
... are adorned , in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that the 18 ESSAY 1 .
... are adorned , in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that the 18 ESSAY 1 .
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