Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 9
... means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , sometime , it will demand and find compensation for that loss by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him . History ...
... means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , sometime , it will demand and find compensation for that loss by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him . History ...
Page 28
... using the name of any creature , of any fact , because every creature is man agent or patient . Tantalus is but a name for and me . Tantalus means the impos- you sibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always 28 ESSAY 1 .
... using the name of any creature , of any fact , because every creature is man agent or patient . Tantalus is but a name for and me . Tantalus means the impos- you sibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always 28 ESSAY 1 .
Page 42
... means opposed to our purpose , these have not . Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet unconquered , and when we look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all conform to it , so that one babe ...
... means opposed to our purpose , these have not . Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet unconquered , and when we look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all conform to it , so that one babe ...
Page 46
... mean as my gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assur- ance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony . What I must do is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally arduous ...
... mean as my gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assur- ance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony . What I must do is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally arduous ...
Page 48
... Mean- time nature is not slow to equip us in the prison- uniform of the party to which we adhere . We come to wear one cut of face and figure , and ac- quire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression . There is a mortifying experience ...
... Mean- time nature is not slow to equip us in the prison- uniform of the party to which we adhere . We come to wear one cut of face and figure , and ac- quire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression . There is a mortifying experience ...
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