Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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Page 13
... organs of the fish . The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy . A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add . The trivial experience of every day is always ...
... organs of the fish . The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy . A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add . The trivial experience of every day is always ...
Page 107
... organs for its apprehension . The root of the plant is not unsightly to science , though for chaplets and festoons we cut the stem short . And I must hazard the production of the bald fact amidst these pleasing reveries , though it ...
... organs for its apprehension . The root of the plant is not unsightly to science , though for chaplets and festoons we cut the stem short . And I must hazard the production of the bald fact amidst these pleasing reveries , though it ...
Page 120
... organs are destroyed . But culture , revealing the high origin of the apparent world , and aiming at the per- fection of the man as the end , degrades everything else , as health and bodily life , into means . It sees prudence not to be ...
... organs are destroyed . But culture , revealing the high origin of the apparent world , and aiming at the per- fection of the man as the end , degrades everything else , as health and bodily life , into means . It sees prudence not to be ...
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