Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 13
... sentiment . Let us find room for this great guest in our small houses . The first step of worthiness will be to disabuse us of our superstitious associations with places and times , with number and size . Why should these words ...
... sentiment . Let us find room for this great guest in our small houses . The first step of worthiness will be to disabuse us of our superstitious associations with places and times , with number and size . Why should these words ...
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... sentiments in obscure duties is hardening the character to that temper which will work with honor , if need be in the tumult , or on the scaffold . Whatever outrages have happened to men may befall a man again : and very easily in a ...
... sentiments in obscure duties is hardening the character to that temper which will work with honor , if need be in the tumult , or on the scaffold . Whatever outrages have happened to men may befall a man again : and very easily in a ...
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... sentiment of kindness anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light . The introduction to this felicity is in a pri- vate and tender relation of one to one , which is the enchantment of ...
... sentiment of kindness anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light . The introduction to this felicity is in a pri- vate and tender relation of one to one , which is the enchantment of ...
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... sentiment as it appeared in hope , and not in history . For each man sees his own life defaced and disfigured , as the life of man is not to his im- agination . Each man sees over his own ex- perience a certain slime of error , whilst ...
... sentiment as it appeared in hope , and not in history . For each man sees his own life defaced and disfigured , as the life of man is not to his im- agination . Each man sees over his own ex- perience a certain slime of error , whilst ...
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... sentiment , and cover every be- loved name . Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect , or as truth . But all is sour if seen as experience . Details are always melancholy ; the plan is seemly and noble . It is ...
... sentiment , and cover every be- loved name . Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect , or as truth . But all is sour if seen as experience . Details are always melancholy ; the plan is seemly and noble . It is ...
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