Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 17
... mind and with what sweet- ness of temper he can , and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty , braving such penalties , whenever it may please the next newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions ...
... mind and with what sweet- ness of temper he can , and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty , braving such penalties , whenever it may please the next newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions ...
Page 19
... mind and body ; unites him to his race , pledges him to the domestic and civic relations , carries him with new sympa- thy into nature , enhances the power of the senses , opens the imagination , adds to his character heroic and sacred ...
... mind and body ; unites him to his race , pledges him to the domestic and civic relations , carries him with new sympa- thy into nature , enhances the power of the senses , opens the imagination , adds to his character heroic and sacred ...
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... mind , the soul passes through the body and falls to admire strokes of character , and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions , then they pass to the true palace of beauty , more and more inflame their ...
... mind , the soul passes through the body and falls to admire strokes of character , and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions , then they pass to the true palace of beauty , more and more inflame their ...
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... mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the en- tire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less ...
... mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the en- tire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less ...
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... mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the ...
... mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the ...
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