Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... vate economy . Life is a festival only to the wise . Seen from the nook and chimney - side of prudence , it wears a ragged and dangerous front . The violations of the laws of nature by our predecessors and our contemporaries are ...
... vate economy . Life is a festival only to the wise . Seen from the nook and chimney - side of prudence , it wears a ragged and dangerous front . The violations of the laws of nature by our predecessors and our contemporaries are ...
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... vate and tender relation of one to one , which is the enchantment of human life ; which , like a certain divine rage and enthusiasm , seizes on man at one period and works a rev- olution in his mind and body ; unites him to his race ...
... vate and tender relation of one to one , which is the enchantment of human life ; which , like a certain divine rage and enthusiasm , seizes on man at one period and works a rev- olution in his mind and body ; unites him to his race ...
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... vate heart , glows and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women , upon the universal heart of all , and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flame . It matters not therefore whether we ...
... vate heart , glows and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women , upon the universal heart of all , and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flame . It matters not therefore whether we ...
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... vate heart is true for all men , —that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost - and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last ...
... vate heart is true for all men , —that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost - and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last ...
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... vate good ; and , in particulars , to ride that he may ride ; to dress that he may be dressed ; to eat that he may eat ; and to govern , that he may be seen . Men seek to be great ; they would have offices ; wealth , power , and fame ...
... vate good ; and , in particulars , to ride that he may ride ; to dress that he may be dressed ; to eat that he may eat ; and to govern , that he may be seen . Men seek to be great ; they would have offices ; wealth , power , and fame ...
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