Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 9
... Stand before each of its tab- lets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus na- ture hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats ...
... Stand before each of its tab- lets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus na- ture hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats ...
Page 11
... Stand before each of its tab- lets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus na- ture hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats ...
... Stand before each of its tab- lets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus na- ture hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats ...
Page 14
... of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris was , when we have made a constellation of it to 14 HISTORY .
... of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris was , when we have made a constellation of it to 14 HISTORY .
Page 16
... stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon , before a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More , of Sidney , of Marmaduke Robin- son ; before a French Reign of Terror , and a Salem hanging ...
... stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon , before a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More , of Sidney , of Marmaduke Robin- son ; before a French Reign of Terror , and a Salem hanging ...
Page 34
... stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers all things on their account . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it ...
... stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers all things on their account . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it ...
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