Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 16
... once heard given to a young person , " Always do what you are afraid to do . " A simple manly character need never make an apology , but should regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion , when he admitted that the event of the ...
... once heard given to a young person , " Always do what you are afraid to do . " A simple manly character need never make an apology , but should regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion , when he admitted that the event of the ...
Page 32
... once could not lose sight of its ob- ject , for a cheerful , disengaged furtherance , whether present or absent , of each other's de- signs . At last they discover that all which at first drew them together , those once sacred features ...
... once could not lose sight of its ob- ject , for a cheerful , disengaged furtherance , whether present or absent , of each other's de- signs . At last they discover that all which at first drew them together , those once sacred features ...
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... 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 time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access ...
... 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 time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access ...
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... 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 must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible . We , as we read , must become Greeks ...
... 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 must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible . We , as we read , must become Greeks ...
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... once more in their architecture - the purest sensuous beauty - the perfect medium never over - step- ping the limit of charming propriety and grace . Then we have it once more in sculpt- ure , -the " tongue on the balance of expres ...
... once more in their architecture - the purest sensuous beauty - the perfect medium never over - step- ping the limit of charming propriety and grace . Then we have it once more in sculpt- ure , -the " tongue on the balance of expres ...
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