Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 9
... 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 , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things ...
... 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 , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things ...
Page 11
... 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 , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things ...
... 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 , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things ...
Page 12
... lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in ...
... lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in ...
Page 15
... lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , some- time , it will demand and find compensation for that loss , by doing the work itself . Ferguson dis- covered many things in astronomy ...
... lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , some- time , it will demand and find compensation for that loss , by doing the work itself . Ferguson dis- covered many things in astronomy ...
Page 55
... loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a dead church , contrib- ute to a dead Bible - society , vote with a great party either for the government or against it , spread your table like base ...
... loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a dead church , contrib- ute to a dead Bible - society , vote with a great party either for the government or against it , spread your table like base ...
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