Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... conversation with finite nature ? And yet the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death im- possible , and affirms itself no mortal but a native of the deeps of absolute and inextin- guishable being ...
... conversation with finite nature ? And yet the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death im- possible , and affirms itself no mortal but a native of the deeps of absolute and inextin- guishable being ...
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... conversation of society . What do we wish to know of any worthy person so much as how he has sped in the history of this sentiment ? What books in the circula- ting libraries circulate ? How we glow over these novels of passion , when ...
... conversation of society . What do we wish to know of any worthy person so much as how he has sped in the history of this sentiment ? What books in the circula- ting libraries circulate ? How we glow over these novels of passion , when ...
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... conversation in his new thoughts than any old friends , though best and purest , can give him ; for , the fig- ures , the motions , the words of the beloved object are not , like other images , written in LOVE . 23 PAGE.
... conversation in his new thoughts than any old friends , though best and purest , can give him ; for , the fig- ures , the motions , the words of the beloved object are not , like other images , written in LOVE . 23 PAGE.
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... 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 them in one to loving them in ...
... 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 them in one to loving them in ...
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... conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the loud praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves , as by personal allusions . A wise and good soul , therefore ...
... conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the loud praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves , as by personal allusions . A wise and good soul , therefore ...
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