Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 9
... actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats , scor- pions , the balance and the waterpot lose their mean- ness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades ...
... actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats , scor- pions , the balance and the waterpot lose their mean- ness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades ...
Page 20
... action and never transgressing the ideal seren- ity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods ... actions of Phocion ? Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a ...
... action and never transgressing the ideal seren- ity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods ... actions of Phocion ? Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a ...
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... actions and words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual ...
... actions and words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual ...
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... action of man on man . A mind might ponder its thoughts for ages and not gain so much self - knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day . Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an outrage , or ...
... action of man on man . A mind might ponder its thoughts for ages and not gain so much self - knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day . Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an outrage , or ...
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... action of man on man . A mind might ponder its thoughts for ages and not gain so much self - knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day . Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an outrage , or ...
... action of man on man . A mind might ponder its thoughts for ages and not gain so much self - knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day . Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an outrage , or ...
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