Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 5
... Stand be- fore each of its tablets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective and as crabs , goats ...
... Stand be- fore each of its tablets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective and as crabs , goats ...
Page 8
... standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What ...
... standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What ...
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... human na- ture ; that is all . We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact , see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before HISTORY . 9.
... human na- ture ; that is all . We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact , see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before HISTORY . 9.
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... stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers all things on their ac- count . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove ...
... stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers all things on their ac- count . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove ...
Page 36
... . The idiot , the Indian , the child , and unschooled farmer's boy , stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read , than the dissector or the antiquary . - - SELF - RELIANCE . " Ne te quæsiveris extra . 36 ESSAY I.
... . The idiot , the Indian , the child , and unschooled farmer's boy , stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read , than the dissector or the antiquary . - - SELF - RELIANCE . " Ne te quæsiveris extra . 36 ESSAY I.
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