Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... speak simply , speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the re- flective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the ...
... speak simply , speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the re- flective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the ...
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... speak ; and the like , — I find true in Concord , however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne . Is it otherwise in the newest romance ? I read the Bride of Lammermoor . Sir William Ashton is a mask for a vulgar temptation , Ravenswood ...
... speak ; and the like , — I find true in Concord , however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne . Is it otherwise in the newest romance ? I read the Bride of Lammermoor . Sir William Ashton is a mask for a vulgar temptation , Ravenswood ...
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... Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost , and our first thought is ren- dered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judg- ment . Familiar as the voice of the ...
... Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost , and our first thought is ren- dered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judg- ment . Familiar as the voice of the ...
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... 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 very unnec essary . The ...
... 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 very unnec essary . The ...
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... upright and vital , and speak the rude truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of phi lanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot as 1 sumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes 52 SELF - RELIANCE .
... upright and vital , and speak the rude truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of phi lanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot as 1 sumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes 52 SELF - RELIANCE .
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