Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 19
... thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to sit in the road- side and put riddles to every passenger . If the man could not answer she swallowed him alive . solve ...
... thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to sit in the road- side and put riddles to every passenger . If the man could not answer she swallowed him alive . solve ...
Page 22
... thou- sands in a national exultation or alarm ? No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for ...
... thou- sands in a national exultation or alarm ? No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for ...
Page 29
... thou foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the dollar , the dime , the cent , I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong . There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ...
... thou foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the dollar , the dime , the cent , I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong . There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ...
Page 45
... thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . ' Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors , and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God . Every ...
... thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . ' Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors , and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God . Every ...
Page 48
... thou- sand - cloven tongue , deign to repeat itself ; but if you can hear what these patriarchs say , surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice ; for the ear and the tongue are two organs of one nature . Abide in the ...
... thou- sand - cloven tongue , deign to repeat itself ; but if you can hear what these patriarchs say , surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice ; for the ear and the tongue are two organs of one nature . Abide in the ...
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