Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 120
... beautiful but stony case , be- cause it no longer admits of its growth , and slowly forms a new house . In ... soul , in its proper eternity and omnipresence . We do not believe there is any force in to - day to rival or recreate that ...
... beautiful but stony case , be- cause it no longer admits of its growth , and slowly forms a new house . In ... soul , in its proper eternity and omnipresence . We do not believe there is any force in to - day to rival or recreate that ...
Page 143
... beauty , and follows some giddy girl , not yet taught by religious passion to know the noble woman with all that is serene , oracular and beautiful in her soul . Let him be great , and love shall follow him . Noth- ing is more deeply ...
... beauty , and follows some giddy girl , not yet taught by religious passion to know the noble woman with all that is serene , oracular and beautiful in her soul . Let him be great , and love shall follow him . Noth- ing is more deeply ...
Page 156
... soul incarnated in some woman's form , poor and sad and single , in some Dolly or Joan , go out to service and sweep ... beautiful actions , the top and radiance - - of human life , and all people will get mops 156 SPIRITUAL LAWS .
... soul incarnated in some woman's form , poor and sad and single , in some Dolly or Joan , go out to service and sweep ... beautiful actions , the top and radiance - - of human life , and all people will get mops 156 SPIRITUAL LAWS .
Page 172
... soul , that it may avail itself of beautiful bodies as aids to its recollection of the celestial good and fair ; and the man beholding such a person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form ...
... soul , that it may avail itself of beautiful bodies as aids to its recollection of the celestial good and fair ; and the man beholding such a person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form ...
Page 173
... beautiful soul only the door through which he enters to the soci- ety of all true and pure souls . In the particular society of his mate he attains a clearer sight of any spot , any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world ...
... beautiful soul only the door through which he enters to the soci- ety of all true and pure souls . In the particular society of his mate he attains a clearer sight of any spot , any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world ...
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