Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 35
... thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to sit in the road - side and put riddles to every passenger . If the man could not answer , she swallowed him alive . If ...
... thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to sit in the road - side and put riddles to every passenger . If the man could not answer , she swallowed him alive . If ...
Page 53
... thou foolish philan- thropist that I grudge the dollar , the dime , the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong . There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ...
... thou foolish philan- thropist that I grudge the dollar , the dime , the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong . There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ...
Page 58
... thou- sand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity , yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with ...
... thou- sand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity , yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with ...
Page 78
... thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . ' Everywhere I am hin- dered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables mere- ly of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God . Every ...
... thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . ' Everywhere I am hin- dered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables mere- ly of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God . Every ...
Page 82
... thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again . 4. As our Religion , our Education , our Art look abroad , so does our spirit of society . All men plume themselves on the improvement of society , and no man improves . Society never advances ...
... thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again . 4. As our Religion , our Education , our Art look abroad , so does our spirit of society . All men plume themselves on the improvement of society , and no man improves . Society never advances ...
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