Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 18
... teaches the unity of cause , the variety of appearance . Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all- creating nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and mag- nify a few forms ? Why should ...
... teaches the unity of cause , the variety of appearance . Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all- creating nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and mag- nify a few forms ? Why should ...
Page 32
... teaches him how Belus was worshipped and how the Pyramids were built , better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile . He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door , and ...
... teaches him how Belus was worshipped and how the Pyramids were built , better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile . He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door , and ...
Page 40
... teach it in a day . Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an outrage , or has heard an eloquent tongue , or has shared the throb of thousands in a national exulta- tion or alarm ? No man can antedate his ...
... teach it in a day . Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an outrage , or has heard an eloquent tongue , or has shared the throb of thousands in a national exulta- tion or alarm ? No man can antedate his ...
Page 48
... teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good - humored in- flexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side . Else to - morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have ...
... teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good - humored in- flexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side . Else to - morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have ...
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... teaches above our wills . Men im- agine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions , and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment . are . There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions ...
... teaches above our wills . Men im- agine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions , and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment . are . There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions ...
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