Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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... experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to national crises . Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is ...
... experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to national crises . Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is ...
Page 93
... experience a certain slime of error , whilst that of other men looks fair and ideal . Let any man go back to those delicious relations which make the beauty of his life , which have given him sincerest instruction and nourishment , he ...
... experience a certain slime of error , whilst that of other men looks fair and ideal . Let any man go back to those delicious relations which make the beauty of his life , which have given him sincerest instruction and nourishment , he ...
Page 95
... experience , that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give witch - craft surpassing the deep attraction of its own truth to a parcel of accidental and ...
... experience , that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give witch - craft surpassing the deep attraction of its own truth to a parcel of accidental and ...
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