Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... give the name of Heroism . Its rudest form is the contempt for safety and ease , which makes the attract- iveness of war . It is a self - trust which slights the restraints of prudence , in the plen- itude of its energy and power to ...
... give the name of Heroism . Its rudest form is the contempt for safety and ease , which makes the attract- iveness of war . It is a self - trust which slights the restraints of prudence , in the plen- itude of its energy and power to ...
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... give time , or money , or shelter , to the stranger , so it be done for love and not for ostentation , -do , as it ... gives what it hath , and all it hath , but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than ...
... give time , or money , or shelter , to the stranger , so it be done for love and not for ostentation , -do , as it ... gives what it hath , and all it hath , but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than ...
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... gives permanence to human society . The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heydey of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints , which every youth and maid should confess to be true to ...
... gives permanence to human society . The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heydey of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints , which every youth and maid should confess to be true to ...
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... give a witchcraft , sur- passing the deep attraction of its own truth , to a parcel of accidental and trivial circum- stances . In looking backward they may find that several things which were not the charm have more reality to this ...
... give a witchcraft , sur- passing the deep attraction of its own truth , to a parcel of accidental and trivial circum- stances . In looking backward they may find that several things which were not the charm have more reality to this ...
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... gives the coward heart . Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world , so only it have the countenance of the beloved object In giving him to another it still more gives him to himself . He is a ...
... gives the coward heart . Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world , so only it have the countenance of the beloved object In giving him to another it still more gives him to himself . He is a ...
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