Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... natural world , and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature ? And yet the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death im- possible , and affirms itself ...
... natural world , and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature ? And yet the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death im- possible , and affirms itself ...
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... nature , enhances the power of the senses , opens the imagination , adds to his character heroic and sacred attributes , es- tablishes marriage and gives permanence to human society . The natural association of the sentiment of love ...
... nature , enhances the power of the senses , opens the imagination , adds to his character heroic and sacred attributes , es- tablishes marriage and gives permanence to human society . The natural association of the sentiment of love ...
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... nature is seen in the pro- portion which this topic of personal relations usurps in the conversation of society . What do we wish to know of any worthy person so much as how he has sped in the history of this sentiment ? What books in ...
... nature is seen in the pro- portion which this topic of personal relations usurps in the conversation of society . What do we wish to know of any worthy person so much as how he has sped in the history of this sentiment ? What books in ...
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... nature of woman flows out in this pretty gossip . The girls may have little beauty , yet plainly do they estab- lish ... nature to the power of love , without being tempted to unsay , as treasonable to nature , aught derogatory to the ...
... nature of woman flows out in this pretty gossip . The girls may have little beauty , yet plainly do they estab- lish ... nature to the power of love , without being tempted to unsay , as treasonable to nature , aught derogatory to the ...
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... Nature grows conscious . Every bird on the boughs of the tree sings now to his heart and soul . Almost the notes are articulate . clouds have faces as he looks on them . The trees of the forest , the waving grass and the peeping flowers ...
... Nature grows conscious . Every bird on the boughs of the tree sings now to his heart and soul . Almost the notes are articulate . clouds have faces as he looks on them . The trees of the forest , the waving grass and the peeping flowers ...
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