Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... for thee . Prithee , haste . Dor . - Stay , Sophocles , -with this tie up my sight ; Let not soft nature so transformed be , And lose her gentler sexed humanity , To make me see my lord bleed . So , HEROISM, · ESSAY HEROISM,
... for thee . Prithee , haste . Dor . - Stay , Sophocles , -with this tie up my sight ; Let not soft nature so transformed be , And lose her gentler sexed humanity , To make me see my lord bleed . So , HEROISM, · ESSAY HEROISM,
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... human crime , must have its outlet by human suffering . Unhappily almost no man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin , and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation . Our culture ...
... human crime , must have its outlet by human suffering . Unhappily almost no man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin , and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation . Our culture ...
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... human society ? What joys has kind na- ture provided for us dear creatures ! There seems to be no interval between greatness and meanness . When the spirit is not master of the world , then it is its dupe . Yet the little man takes the ...
... human society ? What joys has kind na- ture provided for us dear creatures ! There seems to be no interval between greatness and meanness . When the spirit is not master of the world , then it is its dupe . Yet the little man takes the ...
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... human love and raise the standard of civil virtue among mankind . But hospitality must be for service and not for show , or it pulls down the host . The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and ...
... human love and raise the standard of civil virtue among mankind . But hospitality must be for service and not for show , or it pulls down the host . The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and ...
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... Human virtue de- mands her champions and martyrs , and the trial of persecution always proceeds . It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob , for the rights of free speech and opinion , and ...
... Human virtue de- mands her champions and martyrs , and the trial of persecution always proceeds . It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob , for the rights of free speech and opinion , and ...
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