Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears the commendation , not of himself , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concern- ing character , yea , further , in every fact and ...
... look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears the commendation , not of himself , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concern- ing character , yea , further , in every fact and ...
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... look at it , its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races ...
... look at it , its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races ...
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... looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , addresses . Ĉivil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must remain words ...
... looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , addresses . Ĉivil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must remain words ...
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... look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all con- form to it , so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it . So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no ...
... look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all con- form to it , so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it . So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no ...
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... look but at one side , the permitted side , not as a man , but as a parish minister ? He is a retained attorney , and these airs of the bench are the emptiest affectation . Well , most men have bound their eyes with one or another ...
... look but at one side , the permitted side , not as a man , but as a parish minister ? He is a retained attorney , and these airs of the bench are the emptiest affectation . Well , most men have bound their eyes with one or another ...
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