Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... tion on violation to breed such compound misery . A lockjaw that bends a man's head back to his heels ; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes ; insanity that makes him eat grass ; war , plague , cholera , famine ...
... tion on violation to breed such compound misery . A lockjaw that bends a man's head back to his heels ; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes ; insanity that makes him eat grass ; war , plague , cholera , famine ...
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... tion is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity ; for every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good . But it finds its own success at last , and then the prudent also extol . Self - trust is the essence of ...
... tion is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity ; for every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good . But it finds its own success at last , and then the prudent also extol . Self - trust is the essence of ...
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... number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions incen- diary . It may calm the apprehension of calamity in the most susceptible heart to see how quick a a bound Nature has set to the utmost inflic- tion HEROISM . 17.
... number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions incen- diary . It may calm the apprehension of calamity in the most susceptible heart to see how quick a a bound Nature has set to the utmost inflic- tion HEROISM . 17.
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... tion of malice . We rapidly approach a brink over which no enemy can follow us . " Let them rave : Thou art quiet in thy grave . " In the gloom of our ignorance of what shall be , in the hour when we are deaf to the high- er voices ...
... tion of malice . We rapidly approach a brink over which no enemy can follow us . " Let them rave : Thou art quiet in thy grave . " In the gloom of our ignorance of what shall be , in the hour when we are deaf to the high- er voices ...
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... tion of his manifold spirit to the manifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual ...
... tion of his manifold spirit to the manifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual ...
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