Essays, First SeriesH. Altemus, 1939 - 332 pages |
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... look at it , its outline and texture are changed altogether . Nothing is so fleeting as form . Yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the rudiments or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower ...
... look at it , its outline and texture are changed altogether . Nothing is so fleeting as form . Yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the rudiments or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower ...
Page 141
... look , ungenerous acts , and the want of due knowledge , —all blab . Can a cook , a Chiffinch , an Iachimo be mistaken for Zeno or Paul ? Confucius exclaimed , " How can a man be concealed ! How can a man be concealed ! " On the other ...
... look , ungenerous acts , and the want of due knowledge , —all blab . Can a cook , a Chiffinch , an Iachimo be mistaken for Zeno or Paul ? Confucius exclaimed , " How can a man be concealed ! How can a man be concealed ! " On the other ...
Page 302
... look parvenues and popular ; for " persuasion is in soul , but necessity is in intellect . " band of grandees , Hermes , Heraclitus , Empedocles , Plato , Plotinus , Olympiodorus , Proclus , Synesius , and the rest , have somewhat so ...
... look parvenues and popular ; for " persuasion is in soul , but necessity is in intellect . " band of grandees , Hermes , Heraclitus , Empedocles , Plato , Plotinus , Olympiodorus , Proclus , Synesius , and the rest , have somewhat so ...
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