Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... society of their age as color is in our Ameri- can population . When any Rodrigo , Pedro or Valerio enters , though he be a stranger , the duke or governor exclaims , “ This is a gen- tleman , " and proffers civilities without end ; but ...
... society of their age as color is in our Ameri- can population . When any Rodrigo , Pedro or Valerio enters , though he be a stranger , the duke or governor exclaims , “ This is a gen- tleman , " and proffers civilities without end ; but ...
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... society ? What joys has kind na- ture provided for us dear creatures ! There seems to be no interval between greatness and meanness . When the spirit is not master of the world , then it is its dupe . Yet the little man takes the great ...
... society ? What joys has kind na- ture provided for us dear creatures ! There seems to be no interval between greatness and meanness . When the spirit is not master of the world , then it is its dupe . Yet the little man takes the great ...
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... society , of books , of religion , we admire their superiority ; they seem to throw contempt on the whole state of the world ; theirs is the tone of a youthful giant who is sent to work revolutions . But they enter an active profession ...
... society , of books , of religion , we admire their superiority ; they seem to throw contempt on the whole state of the world ; theirs is the tone of a youthful giant who is sent to work revolutions . But they enter an active profession ...
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... society . The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heydey of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints , which every youth and maid should confess to be true to their throbbing experi- ence ...
... society . The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heydey of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints , which every youth and maid should confess to be true to their throbbing experi- ence ...
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... 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 the circula- ting libraries circulate ? How we glow over these novels of passion , when the story is told ...
... 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 the circula- ting libraries circulate ? How we glow over these novels of passion , when the story is told ...
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