Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 16
... fear and obedience , and even much sympathy with the tyranny , is a familiar fact explained to the child when he becomes a man , only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannised over by those names and words ...
... fear and obedience , and even much sympathy with the tyranny , is a familiar fact explained to the child when he becomes a man , only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannised over by those names and words ...
Page 28
... fear . These are the voices which we hear in solitude , but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world . Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock ...
... fear . These are the voices which we hear in solitude , but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world . Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock ...
Page 39
... Fear and hope are alike beneath it . There is some- what low even in hope . In the hour of vision , there is nothing that can be called gratitude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation ...
... Fear and hope are alike beneath it . There is some- what low even in hope . In the hour of vision , there is nothing that can be called gratitude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation ...
Page 41
... fear , want , charity , all knock at once at thy closet door , and say , — ' Come out unto us . ' But keep thy state ; come not into their confusion . The power men possess to annoy me , I give them by a weak curiosity . No man can come ...
... fear , want , charity , all knock at once at thy closet door , and say , — ' Come out unto us . ' But keep thy state ; come not into their confusion . The power men possess to annoy me , I give them by a weak curiosity . No man can come ...
Page 52
... fear from her rotations . A political victory , a rise of rents , the re- covery of your sick , or the return of your absent friend , or some other favourable event , raises your spirits , and you think good days are preparing for you ...
... fear from her rotations . A political victory , a rise of rents , the re- covery of your sick , or the return of your absent friend , or some other favourable event , raises your spirits , and you think good days are preparing for you ...
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