Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 13
... never needs 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 ...
... never needs 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 ...
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... never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- mant streams ...
... never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- mant streams ...
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... never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races ; yet in him they enhance his nobleness and grace ; as Io , in Eschylus , transformed to a cow ...
... never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races ; yet in him they enhance his nobleness and grace ; as Io , in Eschylus , transformed to a cow ...
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... never transgressing the ideal seren- ity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though in convulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance . Thus of the ...
... never transgressing the ideal seren- ity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though in convulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance . Thus of the ...
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... never gave over the nomadism of its barbarous tribes , but travelled from Ecbatana , where the spring was spent , to Susa in summer and to Babylon for the winter . In the early history of Asia and Africa , Nomad- HISTORY . 25.
... never gave over the nomadism of its barbarous tribes , but travelled from Ecbatana , where the spring was spent , to Susa in summer and to Babylon for the winter . In the early history of Asia and Africa , Nomad- HISTORY . 25.
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