Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... word that is said concerning character , yea , further , in every fact and circumstance , —— in the run- ning river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows from mute nature , from the mountains and the ...
... word that is said concerning character , yea , further , in every fact and circumstance , —— in the run- ning river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows from mute nature , from the mountains and the ...
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... words , there is properly no history ; only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , - must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know . What the former age has ...
... words , there is properly no history ; only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , - must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know . What the former age has ...
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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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... words . There is nothing but is related to us , nothing that does not interest us , kingdom , college , tree , horse , or iron shoe , the roots of all things are in man . Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a ...
... words . There is nothing but is related to us , nothing that does not interest us , kingdom , college , tree , horse , or iron shoe , the roots of all things are in man . Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a ...
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... word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zo- roaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate them- selves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . They are mine as much as theirs . I have seen the first monks and ...
... word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zo- roaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate them- selves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . They are mine as much as theirs . I have seen the first monks and ...
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