Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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Page 65
... nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative . The law of nature is , Do the thing , and you shall have the power ; but they who do not the thing have not the power . Human labor , through all its forms , from the ...
... nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative . The law of nature is , Do the thing , and you shall have the power ; but they who do not the thing have not the power . Human labor , through all its forms , from the ...
Page 73
... nature is vitiated by any inter- ference 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 commended , Whether ...
... nature is vitiated by any inter- ference 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 commended , Whether ...
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... nature out and out , and thoroughly knows how knowledge is acquired and character formed is a pendant . The simplicity of nature is not that which may easily be read , but is inexhaustible . The last analysis can no wise be made . We ...
... nature out and out , and thoroughly knows how knowledge is acquired and character formed is a pendant . The simplicity of nature is not that which may easily be read , but is inexhaustible . The last analysis can no wise be made . We ...
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