Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... man . Epoch after epoch , can kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are mer the application of his manifold spirit ... man's mind , and whe the same thought occurs to another man , it is th key to that era . Every reform was once a ...
... man . Epoch after epoch , can kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are mer the application of his manifold spirit ... man's mind , and whe the same thought occurs to another man , it is th key to that era . Every reform was once a ...
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... man Commands all light , all influence , all fate ; Nothing to him falls early or too late . Our acts our angels are , or good or ill , Our fatal shadows that walk by us still . " Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune ...
... man Commands all light , all influence , all fate ; Nothing to him falls early or too late . Our acts our angels are , or good or ill , Our fatal shadows that walk by us still . " Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune ...
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... man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take him self for better for worse as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good , no kernel of nour ...
... man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take him self for better for worse as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good , no kernel of nour ...
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... man with us , and we will obey . ' Everywhere I am hin- dered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his ... man's relation to the Highest . Such is Cal- vinism , Quakerism , Swedenborgism . The pupil takes the same delight ...
... man with us , and we will obey . ' Everywhere I am hin- dered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his ... man's relation to the Highest . Such is Cal- vinism , Quakerism , Swedenborgism . The pupil takes the same delight ...
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... the balls That hurry through the eternal halls , A makeweight flying to the void , Supplemental asteroid , Or compensatory spark , Shoots across the neutral Dark . Man's the elm , and Wealth the vine , Stanch COMPENSATION •
... the balls That hurry through the eternal halls , A makeweight flying to the void , Supplemental asteroid , Or compensatory spark , Shoots across the neutral Dark . Man's the elm , and Wealth the vine , Stanch COMPENSATION •
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