Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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Page 88
... gifts and salutations heretofore ? Be a gift and a benediction . Shine with real light , and not with the borrowed reflection of gifts . Common men are apologies for men ; they bow the head , they excuse themselves with prolix reasons ...
... gifts and salutations heretofore ? Be a gift and a benediction . Shine with real light , and not with the borrowed reflection of gifts . Common men are apologies for men ; they bow the head , they excuse themselves with prolix reasons ...
Page 112
... gifts , and country rambles , but also for rough roads and hard fare , shipwreck , poverty , and persecution . It keeps company with the sallies of the wit and the trances of religion . We are to dignify to each other the daily needs ...
... gifts , and country rambles , but also for rough roads and hard fare , shipwreck , poverty , and persecution . It keeps company with the sallies of the wit and the trances of religion . We are to dignify to each other the daily needs ...
Page 155
... gifts do not make the impression of virtue , but almost of vice ; and we feel that a man's talents stand in the way of his advancement in truth . But genius is religious . It is a larger imbibing of the common heart . It is not ...
... gifts do not make the impression of virtue , but almost of vice ; and we feel that a man's talents stand in the way of his advancement in truth . But genius is religious . It is a larger imbibing of the common heart . It is not ...
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