Essays, First SeriesH. Altemus, 1939 - 332 pages |
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Page 50
... sweet , and not to need diet and bleeding . My life should be unique ; it should be an alms , a battle , a conquest , a medicine . I ask primary evidence that you are a man , and refuse this appeal from the man to his actions . I know ...
... sweet , and not to need diet and bleeding . My life should be unique ; it should be an alms , a battle , a conquest , a medicine . I ask primary evidence that you are a man , and refuse this appeal from the man to his actions . I know ...
Page 89
... sweet hath its sour ; every evil its good . Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure , has an equal penalty put on its abuse . It is to answer for its moderation with its life . For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly ...
... sweet hath its sour ; every evil its good . Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure , has an equal penalty put on its abuse . It is to answer for its moderation with its life . For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly ...
Page 94
... sweet , the sensual strong , the sensual bright , etc. , from the 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 ...
... sweet , the sensual strong , the sensual bright , etc. , from the 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 ...
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