Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... ture hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats , scor- pions , the balance and the waterpot lose their mean- ness when hung as signs ...
... ture hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats , scor- pions , the balance and the waterpot lose their mean- ness when hung as signs ...
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... ture hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats , scor- pions , the balance and the waterpot lose their mean- ness when hung as signs ...
... ture hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats , scor- pions , the balance and the waterpot lose their mean- ness when hung as signs ...
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... ture , from the mountains and the lights of the fir- mament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history actively and not passively ; to esteem his own life the text ...
... ture , from the mountains and the lights of the fir- mament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history actively and not passively ; to esteem his own life the text ...
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... of supply- ing his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances . Such are the Agamemnon and ture Xenophon gives of himself and his compatri- ots in Diomed of Homer , and not far different is the pic- 28 HISTORY .
... of supply- ing his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances . Such are the Agamemnon and ture Xenophon gives of himself and his compatri- ots in Diomed of Homer , and not far different is the pic- 28 HISTORY .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. ture Xenophon gives of himself and his compatri- ots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand . " After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Arme- nia , there fell much snow , and the troops lay mis- erably on the ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. ture Xenophon gives of himself and his compatri- ots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand . " After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Arme- nia , there fell much snow , and the troops lay mis- erably on the ...
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