Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 23
... speak simply , ― speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the ...
... speak simply , ― speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the ...
Page 31
... speak ; and the like , -I find true in Concord , however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne . Is it otherwise in the newest romance ? I read the Bride of Lammermoor . Sir William Ashton is a mask for a vulgar temptation , Ravenswood ...
... speak ; and the like , -I find true in Concord , however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne . Is it otherwise in the newest romance ? I read the Bride of Lammermoor . Sir William Ashton is a mask for a vulgar temptation , Ravenswood ...
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... speak to you and me . Hark ! in the next room his voice is suffi- ciently clear and emphatic . It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries . Bashful or bold , then , he will know how to make us seniors very unneces- sary . The ...
... speak to you and me . Hark ! in the next room his voice is suffi- ciently clear and emphatic . It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries . Bashful or bold , then , he will know how to make us seniors very unneces- sary . The ...
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... speak the rude truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes , why should I not ...
... speak the rude truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes , why should I not ...
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... Speak what you think now in hard words , and to - morrow speak what to- morrow thinks in hard words again , though it con- tradict every thing you said to - day . Ah , so you shall be sure to be misunderstood . ' Is it so bad , then ...
... Speak what you think now in hard words , and to - morrow speak what to- morrow thinks in hard words again , though it con- tradict every thing you said to - day . Ah , so you shall be sure to be misunderstood . ' Is it so bad , then ...
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