Essays, First SeriesH. Altemus, 1939 - 332 pages |
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Page 110
... nature is the soul's , and may be had , if paid for in nature's lawful coin , that is , by labor which the heart and the head allow . I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn , for example , to find a pot of buried gold , knowing ...
... nature is the soul's , and may be had , if paid for in nature's lawful coin , that is , by labor which the heart and the head allow . I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn , for example , to find a pot of buried gold , knowing ...
Page 119
... nature is vitiated by any interference of our will . People represent virtue as a struggle , and take to themselves great airs upon their attainments , and the question is everywhere vexed , when a noble nature is com- mended , Whether ...
... nature is vitiated by any interference of our will . People represent virtue as a struggle , and take to themselves great airs upon their attainments , and the question is everywhere vexed , when a noble nature is com- mended , Whether ...
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... nature this primary figure is repeated without end . It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world . St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere , and its circumfer- ence nowhere . We are all ...
... nature this primary figure is repeated without end . It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world . St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere , and its circumfer- ence nowhere . We are all ...
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