Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 14
... mean our life is ; that we , by the depth of our living , should deck it with more than regal or national splendor , and act on principles that should interest man and nature in the length of our days . We have seen or heard of many ...
... mean our life is ; that we , by the depth of our living , should deck it with more than regal or national splendor , and act on principles that should interest man and nature in the length of our days . We have seen or heard of many ...
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... means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere or other , some time or other , it will demand and find compensation for that loss , by doing the work itself . Fer- guson discovered many things , in astronomy which had long been known . The ...
... means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere or other , some time or other , it will demand and find compensation for that loss , by doing the work itself . Fer- guson discovered many things , in astronomy which had long been known . The ...
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... means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul . The trans- migration of souls ; that , too , is no fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human ...
... means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul . The trans- migration of souls ; that , too , is no fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human ...
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... means opposed to our purpose , these have not . Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet unconquered , and when we look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody ; all conform to it ; so that one babe ...
... means opposed to our purpose , these have not . Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet unconquered , and when we look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody ; all conform to it ; so that one babe ...
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... mean as my gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony . What I must do is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally arduous in ...
... mean as my gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony . What I must do is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally arduous in ...
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