Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... keep a fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome , are passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact ...
... keep a fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome , are passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact ...
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... keeping wit , on the other hand , is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of monotony and deterioration , if not stimulated by foreign infusions . Everything the ...
... keeping wit , on the other hand , is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of monotony and deterioration , if not stimulated by foreign infusions . Everything the ...
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... keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude . The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is , that it scatters your force . It . Do loses your time and blurs the impression of 30 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
... keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude . The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is , that it scatters your force . It . Do loses your time and blurs the impression of 30 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
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... keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory , lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself ; what then ? It seems to be a rule of ...
... keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory , lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself ; what then ? It seems to be a rule of ...
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... keep things under his feet . Let him not peep or steal , or skulk up and down with the air of a charity - boy , a bastard , or an interloper , in the world which exists for him . But the man in the street , finding no worth in himself ...
... keep things under his feet . Let him not peep or steal , or skulk up and down with the air of a charity - boy , a bastard , or an interloper , in the world which exists for him . But the man in the street , finding no worth in himself ...
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