Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... truth to which that fact or series belongs . ----- The primeval world , the Fore - World , as the Germans say , I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in cata- combs , libraries , and the broken ...
... truth to which that fact or series belongs . ----- The primeval world , the Fore - World , as the Germans say , I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in cata- combs , libraries , and the broken ...
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... truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do as it were run into one , why should I measure degrees of ...
... truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do as it were run into one , why should I measure degrees of ...
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... truth through all the confusion of tradition and the car- icature of institutions . Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at intervals , who disclose to us new facts in nature . I see that men of God have from time to time walked among ...
... truth through all the confusion of tradition and the car- icature of institutions . Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at intervals , who disclose to us new facts in nature . I see that men of God have from time to time walked among ...
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... person makes against the superstition of his times , he repeats step for step the part of old reformers , and in the search after truth finds , like them , new perils to virtue . He learns again what moral vigor 32 HISTORY .
... person makes against the superstition of his times , he repeats step for step the part of old reformers , and in the search after truth finds , like them , new perils to virtue . He learns again what moral vigor 32 HISTORY .
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... to go 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 .
... to go 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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