Essays, First SeriesH. Altemus, 1939 - 332 pages |
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Page 94
... moral sweet , the moral deep , the moral fair ; that is , again , to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless ; to get a one end , without an other end . The soul says , Eat ; the body would feast ...
... moral sweet , the moral deep , the moral fair ; that is , again , to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless ; to get a one end , without an other end . The soul says , Eat ; the body would feast ...
Page 96
... moral aim . The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics ; and indeed it would seem impossible for any fable to be invented and get any currency which was not moral . Aurora forgot to ask youth for her lover , and so though Tithonus is ...
... moral aim . The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics ; and indeed it would seem impossible for any fable to be invented and get any currency which was not moral . Aurora forgot to ask youth for her lover , and so though Tithonus is ...
Page 265
... moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action . Another analogy we shall now trace ; that every action admits of being outdone . Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth ...
... moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action . Another analogy we shall now trace ; that every action admits of being outdone . Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth ...
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