Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 31
... sensual people . They cannot unite him to history , or reconcile him with themselves . As they come to revere their in- tuitions and aspire to live holily , their own piety explains every fact , every word . How easily these old ...
... sensual people . They cannot unite him to history , or reconcile him with themselves . As they come to revere their in- tuitions and aspire to live holily , their own piety explains every fact , every word . How easily these old ...
Page 38
... sensual . Lucy Ashton is an- other name for fidelity , which is always beautiful and always liable to calamity in this world . But along with the civil and metaphysical his- tory of man , another history goes daily forward , — that of ...
... sensual . Lucy Ashton is an- other name for fidelity , which is always beautiful and always liable to calamity in this world . But along with the civil and metaphysical his- tory of man , another history goes daily forward , — that of ...
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... sensual sweet , the sensual strong , the sensual bright , etc. , from the moral sweet 100 COMPENSATION .
... sensual sweet , the sensual strong , the sensual bright , etc. , from the moral sweet 100 COMPENSATION .
Page 101
First series Ralph Waldo Emerson. the sensual bright , etc. , from the moral sweet , the moral deep , the moral fair ; that is , again , to con- trive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless ; to get a one ...
First series Ralph Waldo Emerson. the sensual bright , etc. , from the moral sweet , the moral deep , the moral fair ; that is , again , to con- trive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless ; to get a one ...
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... sensual good , by itself , than we can get an inside that shall have no outside , or a light without a shadow ... sensual allurement of an object and not see the sensual hurt ; he sees the mermaid's head but not the dragon's tail , and ...
... sensual good , by itself , than we can get an inside that shall have no outside , or a light without a shadow ... sensual allurement of an object and not see the sensual hurt ; he sees the mermaid's head but not the dragon's tail , and ...
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