Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 4
... writes the character of the wise man . Books , monu- ments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever ...
... writes the character of the wise man . Books , monu- ments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever ...
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... writes out freely his humour , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the ...
... writes out freely his humour , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the ...
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... write our annals , —from an ethical reformation , from an influx of the ever new , ever sanative conscience , -if we would trulier express our central and wide - related nature , instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride ...
... write our annals , —from an ethical reformation , from an influx of the ever new , ever sanative conscience , -if we would trulier express our central and wide - related nature , instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride ...
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... write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then , again , do not tell ...
... write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then , again , do not tell ...
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... writing , thinking American , with a watch , a pencil , and a bill of exchange in his pocket , and the naked New Zealander , whose property is a club , a spear , a mat , and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under ! But compare ...
... writing , thinking American , with a watch , a pencil , and a bill of exchange in his pocket , and the naked New Zealander , whose property is a club , a spear , a mat , and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under ! But compare ...
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