Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 42
... Hear the rats in the wall , see the lizard on the fence , the fungus under foot , the lichen on the log . What do I know sympathetically , morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As old as the Cau- casian man , perhaps older ...
... Hear the rats in the wall , see the lizard on the fence , the fungus under foot , the lichen on the log . What do I know sympathetically , morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As old as the Cau- casian man , perhaps older ...
Page 51
... hear in solitude , but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world . Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock company , in which the mem- bers agree ...
... hear in solitude , but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world . Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock company , in which the mem- bers agree ...
Page 55
... blindman's - buff is this game of conformity . If I know your sect I anticipate your argument . I hear pediency of one of the institutions of his church . a preacher announce for his text and topic the ex- SELF - RELIANCE . 55.
... blindman's - buff is this game of conformity . If I know your sect I anticipate your argument . I hear pediency of one of the institutions of his church . a preacher announce for his text and topic the ex- SELF - RELIANCE . 55.
Page 61
... hear a whistle from the Spartan fife . Let us never bow and apologize more . A great man is coming to eat at my house . I do not wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish to please me . I will stand here for humanity , and though ...
... hear a whistle from the Spartan fife . Let us never bow and apologize more . A great man is coming to eat at my house . I do not wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish to please me . I will stand here for humanity , and though ...
Page 67
... hear God himself un- less he speak the phraseology of I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not al- ways set so great a price on a few texts , on a few although it may chance that no one has seen it lives . We are ...
... hear God himself un- less he speak the phraseology of I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not al- ways set so great a price on a few texts , on a few although it may chance that no one has seen it lives . We are ...
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