Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... they have exter- nally the freedom , power , and grace which we feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern 12 HISTORY .
... they have exter- nally the freedom , power , and grace which we feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern 12 HISTORY .
Page 13
... wise man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves , as by per- sonal ...
... wise man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves , as by per- sonal ...
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... wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic and all that ...
... wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic and all that ...
Page 37
... wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic and all that ...
... wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic and all that ...
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... wise man . shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read . You shall make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have described that ...
... wise man . shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read . You shall make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have described that ...
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