Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... man's head back to his heels ; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes ; insanity that makes him eat ... man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin , and so made himself liable ...
... man's head back to his heels ; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes ; insanity that makes him eat ... man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin , and so made himself liable ...
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... man sees his own life defaced and disfigured , as the life of man is not to his im- agination . Each man sees over his own ex- perience a certain slime of error , whilst that of other men looks fair and ideal . Let any man go back to ...
... man sees his own life defaced and disfigured , as the life of man is not to his im- agination . Each man sees over his own ex- perience a certain slime of error , whilst that of other men looks fair and ideal . Let any man go back to ...
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... man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once ad- mitted to the right of reason is made a free- man of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any ...
... man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once ad- mitted to the right of reason is made a free- man of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any ...
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... man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age . The fact nar- rated ...
... man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age . The fact nar- rated ...
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... man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by stoic or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literature writes the character of the wise ...
... man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by stoic or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literature writes the character of the wise ...
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