Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... become to some amount a stockholder in the sin , and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation . Our culture therefore must not omit the arming of the man . Let him hear in season that he is born into the state of war , and ...
... become to some amount a stockholder in the sin , and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation . Our culture therefore must not omit the arming of the man . Let him hear in season that he is born into the state of war , and ...
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... becomes a watcher of windows and studious of a glove , a veil , a ribbon , or the wheels of a carriage ; when no place is too solitary and none too silent for him who has richer company and sweeter conversation in his new thoughts than ...
... becomes a watcher of windows and studious of a glove , a veil , a ribbon , or the wheels of a carriage ; when no place is too solitary and none too silent for him who has richer company and sweeter conversation in his new thoughts than ...
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... becomes a story without an end ; when it suggests gleams and visions and not earthly satisfactions ; when it seems " too bright and good , " For human nature's daily food . " when it makes the beholder feel his unworthi- ness ; when he ...
... becomes a story without an end ; when it suggests gleams and visions and not earthly satisfactions ; when it seems " too bright and good , " For human nature's daily food . " when it makes the beholder feel his unworthi- ness ; when he ...
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... become pure and hallowed . By conversation with that which is in itself excellent , magnanimous , lowly , and just , the lover comes to a warmer love of these nobilities , and a quicker apprehension of them . Then he passes from loving ...
... become pure and hallowed . By conversation with that which is in itself excellent , magnanimous , lowly , and just , the lover comes to a warmer love of these nobilities , and a quicker apprehension of them . Then he passes from loving ...
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... become more im- personal every day . Of this at first it gives no hint . Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other across crowded rooms with eyes so full of mutual intelligence , -- of the precious fruit long here ...
... become more im- personal every day . Of this at first it gives no hint . Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other across crowded rooms with eyes so full of mutual intelligence , -- of the precious fruit long here ...
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