Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears the commendation , not of him- self , but , more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea further in every fact and ...
... look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears the commendation , not of him- self , but , more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea further in every fact and ...
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... with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- mant streams into soft but precise form before it , and whilst I look at it its outline and texture 18 HISTORY .
... with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- mant streams into soft but precise form before it , and whilst I look at it its outline and texture 18 HISTORY .
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First series Ralph Waldo Emerson. and whilst I look at it its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem ...
First series Ralph Waldo Emerson. and whilst I look at it its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem ...
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... looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must remain words ...
... looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must remain words ...
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... look in their faces we are disconcerted . Infaney - con- forms to nobody ; all conform to it ; so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it . So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no ...
... look in their faces we are disconcerted . Infaney - con- forms to nobody ; all conform to it ; so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it . So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no ...
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