Essays: First SeriesUnited States Book Company, 1899 - 326 pages |
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Page 9
... actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance and the water pot lose all their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiack , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon ...
... actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance and the water pot lose all their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiack , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon ...
Page 17
... action at every age of life , ranging through all the scale of condition , from god to beast , and never transgress ... actions of Phocion ? Yet do these varied external expressions proceed from one national mind . Every one must have ...
... action at every age of life , ranging through all the scale of condition , from god to beast , and never transgress ... actions of Phocion ? Yet do these varied external expressions proceed from one national mind . Every one must have ...
Page 18
... actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ...
... actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ...
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... actions and words , by its very looks and inanners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art and the history of literature , -all ...
... actions and words , by its very looks and inanners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art and the history of literature , -all ...
Page 37
... action of man on man . A mind might pon- der its thought for ages and not gain so much self- knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day . Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an outrage , or ...
... action of man on man . A mind might pon- der its thought for ages and not gain so much self- knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day . Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an outrage , or ...
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