Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 10
... forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ag and the ages explained by the hours . Of the unive sal mind each individual man is one more inca nation . All its properties consist in him . Eac new fact in his private experience ...
... forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ag and the ages explained by the hours . Of the unive sal mind each individual man is one more inca nation . All its properties consist in him . Eac new fact in his private experience ...
Page 50
... force , because he cannot speak to you and me . Hark ! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic . It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries . Bashful or bold then , he will know how to make us seniors ...
... force , because he cannot speak to you and me . Hark ! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic . It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries . Bashful or bold then , he will know how to make us seniors ...
Page 55
... force . It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a dead church , contrib- ute to a dead Bible - society , vote with a great party either for the government or against it , spread your table like ...
... force . It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a dead church , contrib- ute to a dead Bible - society , vote with a great party either for the government or against it , spread your table like ...
Page 57
... force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow , it needs the habit of mag nanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment . The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ...
... force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow , it needs the habit of mag nanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment . The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ...
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... force of character is cumulative . All the foregone days of virtue work their health into this . What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagination ? The con- sciousness of a train of great ...
... force of character is cumulative . All the foregone days of virtue work their health into this . What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagination ? The con- sciousness of a train of great ...
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