Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 17
... sense of duty , braving such penalties , whenever it may please the next newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions incen- diary . It may calm the apprehension of calamity in the most susceptible heart ...
... sense of duty , braving such penalties , whenever it may please the next newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions incen- diary . It may calm the apprehension of calamity in the most susceptible heart ...
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... 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 with the heydey of the blood seems to ...
... 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 with the heydey of the blood seems to ...
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... senses , to that which is not . Then first it ceases to be a stone . The same remark holds of painting . And of poetry the success is not attained when it lulls and satis- fies , but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavors ...
... senses , to that which is not . Then first it ceases to be a stone . The same remark holds of painting . And of poetry the success is not attained when it lulls and satis- fies , but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavors ...
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... sense than what he is doing to - day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life . Everything tends in a ...
... sense than what he is doing to - day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life . Everything tends in a ...
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... senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble Centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Pho- cion ? Yet do these varied external expres- sions proceed from one national mind . Every one must have ...
... senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble Centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Pho- cion ? Yet do these varied external expres- sions proceed from one national mind . Every one must have ...
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