Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 13
... any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have re- sounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is The world exists for the education of each man . doing to - day . HISTORY . 13.
... any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have re- sounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is The world exists for the education of each man . doing to - day . HISTORY . 13.
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... name with all the ornament that titles of no- bility could ever add . The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard riding in the ...
... name with all the ornament that titles of no- bility could ever add . The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard riding in the ...
Page 32
... name of God , as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite , the Thebais , and the first Ca- puchins ... names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile . He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door , and ...
... name of God , as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite , the Thebais , and the first Ca- puchins ... names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile . He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door , and ...
Page 35
... name of any creature , of any fact , because every creature is man agent or patient . Tantalus is but a name for you and me . Tantalus means the im- possibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving ...
... name of any creature , of any fact , because every creature is man agent or patient . Tantalus is but a name for you and me . Tantalus means the im- possibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving ...
Page 38
... name for proud poverty , and the for- eign mission of state only a Bunyan disguise for honest industry . We may all shoot a wild bull that would toss the good and beautiful , by fighting down the unjust and sensual . Lucy Ashton is an ...
... name for proud poverty , and the for- eign mission of state only a Bunyan disguise for honest industry . We may all shoot a wild bull that would toss the good and beautiful , by fighting down the unjust and sensual . Lucy Ashton is an ...
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