Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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Page 37
... reason , and finds himself a true prince . Our reading is mendicant and sycophantic . In history , our imagination makes fools of us , plays us false . Kingdom and lordship , power and estate are a gaudier vocabulary than pri- vate John ...
... reason , and finds himself a true prince . Our reading is mendicant and sycophantic . In history , our imagination makes fools of us , plays us false . Kingdom and lordship , power and estate are a gaudier vocabulary than pri- vate John ...
Page 76
... reason . He is old , he is young , he is very wise , he is altogether ignorant . He hears and feels what you say of the seraphim , and of the tin - peddler . There is no permanent wise man , except in the figment of the stoics . We side ...
... reason . He is old , he is young , he is very wise , he is altogether ignorant . He hears and feels what you say of the seraphim , and of the tin - peddler . There is no permanent wise man , except in the figment of the stoics . We side ...
Page 112
... reason to what was drudgery . For perfect friendship it may be said to require natures so rare and costly , so well - tempered each , and so happily adapted , and withal so circumstanced , ( for even in that par- ticular , a poet says ...
... reason to what was drudgery . For perfect friendship it may be said to require natures so rare and costly , so well - tempered each , and so happily adapted , and withal so circumstanced , ( for even in that par- ticular , a poet says ...
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