Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... virtue and with beauty . Treacherous heart , My hand shall cast thee quick into my urn , Ere thou transgress this knot of piety . Val . - What ails my brother ? Soph . - Martius , O Martius , Thou now hast found a way to conquer me ...
... virtue and with beauty . Treacherous heart , My hand shall cast thee quick into my urn , Ere thou transgress this knot of piety . Val . - What ails my brother ? Soph . - Martius , O Martius , Thou now hast found a way to conquer me ...
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... virtue more than books of political science or of pri- 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 ...
... virtue more than books of political science or of pri- 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 ...
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... virtue among mankind . But hospitality must be for service and not for show , or it pulls down the host . The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies . It gives what it hath , and all ...
... virtue among mankind . But hospitality must be for service and not for show , or it pulls down the host . The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies . It gives what it hath , and all ...
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... Virtue ! I have followed thee through life , and I find thee at last but a shade . " I doubt not the hero is slandered by this report . The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness . It does not ask to dine nicely and to ...
... Virtue ! I have followed thee through life , and I find thee at last but a shade . " I doubt not the hero is slandered by this report . The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness . It does not ask to dine nicely and to ...
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... virtue de- mands her champions and martyrs , and the trial of persecution always proceeds . It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob , for the rights of free speech and opinion , and died ...
... virtue de- mands her champions and martyrs , and the trial of persecution always proceeds . It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob , for the rights of free speech and opinion , and died ...
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