Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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Page 82
... persons . Take the book into your two hands , and read your eyes out ; you will never find what I find . If any ingenious reader would have a monopoly of the wisdom or delight he gets , he is as secure , now the book is Englished as if ...
... persons . Take the book into your two hands , and read your eyes out ; you will never find what I find . If any ingenious reader would have a monopoly of the wisdom or delight he gets , he is as secure , now the book is Englished as if ...
Page 106
... person is to me always a great event , and hinders me from sleep . I have had such fine fancies lately about two or three persons , as have given me delicious hours ; but the joy ends in the day : it yields no fruit . Thought is not ...
... person is to me always a great event , and hinders me from sleep . I have had such fine fancies lately about two or three persons , as have given me delicious hours ; but the joy ends in the day : it yields no fruit . Thought is not ...
Page 149
... persons . Childhood and youth see all the world in them . But the larger experience of man discovers the identical na- ture appearing through them all . Persons themselves acquaint us with the impersonal . In all conversation between ...
... persons . Childhood and youth see all the world in them . But the larger experience of man discovers the identical na- ture appearing through them all . Persons themselves acquaint us with the impersonal . In all conversation between ...
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