Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 39
... manner to abbreviate itself and yield its whole virtue to him . He should see that he can live all his- tory in his own person . He must sit at home with might and main and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know ...
... manner to abbreviate itself and yield its whole virtue to him . He should see that he can live all his- tory in his own person . He must sit at home with might and main and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know ...
Page 43
... manner of persons they were and what they did . Then we have the same soul ex- pressed for us again in their literature ; in poems , drama , and philosophy : a very com- plete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture - the ...
... manner of persons they were and what they did . Then we have the same soul ex- pressed for us again in their literature ; in poems , drama , and philosophy : a very com- plete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture - the ...
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... manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are composi- tions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages ...
... manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are composi- tions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages ...
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... manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pict- ures are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art and the history of literature , ―all must be explained from individual history ...
... manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pict- ures are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art and the history of literature , ―all must be explained from individual history ...
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... manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add . The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us and converting into things for us also the words and ...
... manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add . The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us and converting into things for us also the words and ...
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