Essays, Volume 2A. L. Burt, 1900 - 364 pages |
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Page 105
... moral sweet , the moral deep , the moral fair ; that is , again , to con- trive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless ; to get a one end , without an other end . The soul says , Eat ; the body would feast ...
... moral sweet , the moral deep , the moral fair ; that is , again , to con- trive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless ; to get a one end , without an other end . The soul says , Eat ; the body would feast ...
Page 275
... moral and of mental gain . The simple rise as by specific levity , not into a particular virtue , but into the region of all the virtues . They are in the spirit which contains them all . The soul is superior to all the particulars of ...
... moral and of mental gain . The simple rise as by specific levity , not into a particular virtue , but into the region of all the virtues . They are in the spirit which contains them all . The soul is superior to all the particulars of ...
Page 299
... moral we have al- ready deduced in considering the circular or compen- satory character of every human action . Another analogy we shall now trace , that every action ad- mits of being outdone . Our life is an apprenticeship to the ...
... moral we have al- ready deduced in considering the circular or compen- satory character of every human action . Another analogy we shall now trace , that every action ad- mits of being outdone . Our life is an apprenticeship to the ...
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