EssaysHoughton, Mifflin Company, 1883 - 270 pages |
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Page 22
... poor- est experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought . Why covet a knowledge of new facts ? Day and night , house and garden , a few books , a few actions , serve us as well as would all trades and all ...
... poor- est experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought . Why covet a knowledge of new facts ? Day and night , house and garden , a few books , a few actions , serve us as well as would all trades and all ...
Page 27
... poor fungus ; so she shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores , any one of which , being preserved , transmits new billions of spores to - morrow or next day . The new agaric of this hour has a chance which the old one ...
... poor fungus ; so she shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores , any one of which , being preserved , transmits new billions of spores to - morrow or next day . The new agaric of this hour has a chance which the old one ...
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... poor and hun- gry , and such as are of simple taste . If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York , with fash- ion and covetousness , and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee , thou shalt find no radiance of ...
... poor and hun- gry , and such as are of simple taste . If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York , with fash- ion and covetousness , and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee , thou shalt find no radiance of ...
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... poor shepherd , who , blinded and lost in the snow - storm , perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door , is an emblem of the state of man . On the brink of the waters of life and truth , we are miserably dying . The ...
... poor shepherd , who , blinded and lost in the snow - storm , perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door , is an emblem of the state of man . On the brink of the waters of life and truth , we are miserably dying . The ...
Page 82
... poor waiting on the symptoms . A wise and hardy physician will say , Come out of that , as the first condition of advice . In this our talking America we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides . This com- pliance takes ...
... poor waiting on the symptoms . A wise and hardy physician will say , Come out of that , as the first condition of advice . In this our talking America we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides . This com- pliance takes ...
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