Essays: First SeriesUnited States Book Company, 1899 - 326 pages |
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Page 9
... 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 , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things ...
... 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 , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things ...
Page 10
... lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in ...
... lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in ...
Page 13
... lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere or other , some time or other , it will demand and find compensation for that loss , by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in ...
... lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere or other , some time or other , it will demand and find compensation for that loss , by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in ...
Page 47
... lose all pledge and , having observed , observe again from the same unaf- fected , unbiased , unbribable , unaffrighted innocence , must always be formidable , must always engage the poet's and the man's regards . Of such an immortal ...
... lose all pledge and , having observed , observe again from the same unaf- fected , unbiased , unbribable , unaffrighted innocence , must always be formidable , must always engage the poet's and the man's regards . Of such an immortal ...
Page 51
... loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a dead church , contrib ute to a dead Bible Society , vote with a great party either for the Government or against it , spread your table like base ...
... loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a dead church , contrib ute to a dead Bible Society , vote with a great party either for the Government or against it , spread your table like base ...
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