Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... 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 personal allusions . A true aspirant , therefore , never ...
... 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 personal allusions . A true aspirant , therefore , never ...
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... conversation with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry to unfix , and , as it were , clap wings to solid nature , inter- prets the riddle of Orpheus . The philosophical percep- tion of identity through endless mutations of ...
... conversation with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry to unfix , and , as it were , clap wings to solid nature , inter- prets the riddle of Orpheus . The philosophical percep- tion of identity through endless mutations of ...
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... where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spon- taneously moved , but moved by a low usurping wilful- ness , grow tight about the outline of the face SELF - RELIANCE 31.
... where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spon- taneously moved , but moved by a low usurping wilful- ness , grow tight about the outline of the face SELF - RELIANCE 31.
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... conversation , would probably be questioned in silence . If a man dogmatise in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws , he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer ...
... conversation , would probably be questioned in silence . If a man dogmatise in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws , he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer ...
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... conversation of society . What do we wish to know of any worthy person so much , as how he has sped in the history of this sentiment ? What books in the circulating libraries circulate ? How we glow over these novels of passion , when ...
... conversation of society . What do we wish to know of any worthy person so much , as how he has sped in the history of this sentiment ? What books in the circulating libraries circulate ? How we glow over these novels of passion , when ...
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