Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biograph- ical and historical pictures . Earlier , Robert Burns has given us a song or two . In the Harleian Miscellanies there is an account of the battle of Lutzen which ...
... suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biograph- ical and historical pictures . Earlier , Robert Burns has given us a song or two . In the Harleian Miscellanies there is an account of the battle of Lutzen which ...
Page 8
... suffering . Unhappily almost no man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the ... suffer . The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will , but pleasantly and as it were ...
... suffering . Unhappily almost no man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the ... suffer . The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will , but pleasantly and as it were ...
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... suffer and to dare with solemnity . But these rare souls set opinion , success , and life at so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by pe- titions , or the show of sorrow , but wear their own habitual greatness . Scipio ...
... suffer and to dare with solemnity . But these rare souls set opinion , success , and life at so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by pe- titions , or the show of sorrow , but wear their own habitual greatness . Scipio ...
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... suffering men . And not only need we breathe and exercise the soul by assuming the penalties of abstinence , of debt , of solitude , of unpopularity , but it be- hooves the wise man to look with a bold eye into those rarer dangers which ...
... suffering men . And not only need we breathe and exercise the soul by assuming the penalties of abstinence , of debt , of solitude , of unpopularity , but it be- hooves the wise man to look with a bold eye into those rarer dangers which ...
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... suffer from the tumults of the 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 ...
... suffer from the tumults of the 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 ...
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