Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... never needs 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 ...
... never needs 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 ...
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... never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit 7 bends all things to its own will . The adamant HISTORY 7.
... never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit 7 bends all things to its own will . The adamant HISTORY 7.
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... never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though in convulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance . Thus , of the ...
... never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though in convulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance . Thus , of the ...
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... never gave over the nomadism of its barbarous tribes , but travelled from Ecbatana , where the spring was spent , to Susa in summer , and to Babylon for the winter . The In the early history of Asia and Africa , Nomadism and Agriculture ...
... never gave over the nomadism of its barbarous tribes , but travelled from Ecbatana , where the spring was spent , to Susa in summer , and to Babylon for the winter . The In the early history of Asia and Africa , Nomadism and Agriculture ...
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... never about consequences , about interests ; he gives an independent , genuine verdict . You must court him he does not court you . But the man is , as it were , clapped into jail by his consciousness . As soon as he has once acted or ...
... never about consequences , about interests ; he gives an independent , genuine verdict . You must court him he does not court you . But the man is , as it were , clapped into jail by his consciousness . As soon as he has once acted or ...
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