Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 4
... wise man by Stoic , or oriental , or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literature writes the character of the wise man . Books , monu- ments , pictures ...
... wise man by Stoic , or oriental , or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literature writes the character of the wise man . Books , monu- ments , pictures ...
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... wise things which they do not themselves understand . ' All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic , and all ...
... wise things which they do not themselves understand . ' All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic , and all ...
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... wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read . You shall make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame . shall walk , as the poets have described that ...
... wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read . You shall make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame . shall walk , as the poets have described that ...
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... wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . I suppose no man can violate his nature . All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being , as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are ...
... wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . I suppose no man can violate his nature . All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being , as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are ...
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... wise man stays at home , and when his necessities , his duties , on any occasion call him from his house , or into foreign lands , he is at home still , and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance , that he goes the ...
... wise man stays at home , and when his necessities , his duties , on any occasion call him from his house , or into foreign lands , he is at home still , and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance , that he goes the ...
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