Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 139
... fashion is to speak and write sin- cerely . The argument which has not power to reach my own practice , I may well doubt will fail to reach yours . But take Sidney's maxim : " Look in thy heart , and write . " He that writes to himself ...
... fashion is to speak and write sin- cerely . The argument which has not power to reach my own practice , I may well doubt will fail to reach yours . But take Sidney's maxim : " Look in thy heart , and write . " He that writes to himself ...
Page 179
... fashion , nor money stocks depreciate , in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession . In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed . Let him learn a prudence of a higher strain ...
... fashion , nor money stocks depreciate , in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession . In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed . Let him learn a prudence of a higher strain ...
Page 182
... fashion , too old to expect pat- ronage of any greater or more powerful . Let us suck the sweetness of those affections and consuetudes that grow near us . These old shoes are easy to the feet . Undoubtedly we can easily pick faults in ...
... fashion , too old to expect pat- ronage of any greater or more powerful . Let us suck the sweetness of those affections and consuetudes that grow near us . These old shoes are easy to the feet . Undoubtedly we can easily pick faults in ...
Page 232
... fashion every institution . But to make it available it needs a vehicle of art by which it is con- veyed to men . To be communicable it must become picture or sensible object . We must learn the language of facts . The most won- derful ...
... fashion every institution . But to make it available it needs a vehicle of art by which it is con- veyed to men . To be communicable it must become picture or sensible object . We must learn the language of facts . The most won- derful ...
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... fashion and covetousness , and wilt stim- ulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee , thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods . If the imagination intoxicates the poet , it is not inactive in ...
... fashion and covetousness , and wilt stim- ulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee , thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods . If the imagination intoxicates the poet , it is not inactive in ...
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