Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 29
... carry himself in the presence of all opposition , as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he . I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names , to large societies and dead institutions . Every decent and well ...
... carry himself in the presence of all opposition , as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he . I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names , to large societies and dead institutions . Every decent and well ...
Page 35
... drunk in the street , carried to the duke's house , washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed , and , on his waking , treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke , and assured that he had been insane SELF - RELIANCE 35.
... drunk in the street , carried to the duke's house , washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed , and , on his waking , treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke , and assured that he had been insane SELF - RELIANCE 35.
Page 47
... carry , travels away from himself , and grows old even in youth among old things . In Thebes , in Palmyra , his will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they . He carries ruins to ruins . Travelling is a fool's paradise . Our ...
... carry , travels away from himself , and grows old even in youth among old things . In Thebes , in Palmyra , his will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they . He carries ruins to ruins . Travelling is a fool's paradise . Our ...
Page 72
... carry about with me , and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault . ' In the nature of the soul is the compensation for the inequalities of condition . The radical tragedy of nature seems to be the distinction of More and Less ...
... carry about with me , and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault . ' In the nature of the soul is the compensation for the inequalities of condition . The radical tragedy of nature seems to be the distinction of More and Less ...
Page 88
... carried in litters . But a public oration is an escapade , a non - committal , an apology , a gag , and not a communication , not a speech , not a man . A like Nemesis presides over all intellectual works . We have yet to learn , that ...
... carried in litters . But a public oration is an escapade , a non - committal , an apology , a gag , and not a communication , not a speech , not a man . A like Nemesis presides over all intellectual works . We have yet to learn , that ...
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