Essays: First SeriesUnited States Book Company, 1899 - 326 pages |
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Page 8
... relation between the hours of our life and the cen- turies of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise ...
... relation between the hours of our life and the cen- turies of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise ...
Page 24
... relations with his fellow - men . Every man , every thing is a prize , a study , a property to him , and this love smooths his brow , joins him to men , and makes him beauti- ful and beloved in their sight . His house is a wagon ; he ...
... relations with his fellow - men . Every man , every thing is a prize , a study , a property to him , and this love smooths his brow , joins him to men , and makes him beauti- ful and beloved in their sight . His house is a wagon ; he ...
Page 35
... of the human heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature , to reduce it under the do- minion of man . A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the HISTORY . 35.
... of the human heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature , to reduce it under the do- minion of man . A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the HISTORY . 35.
Page 61
... relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps . It must be ... relation to it , —one thing as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , and in the ...
... relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps . It must be ... relation to it , —one thing as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , and in the ...
Page 67
... relations I must fill after a new and un- precedented way . I appeal from your customs . I must be myself . I cannot break myself any longer for you , or you . If you can love me for what I am , we shall be the happier . If you cannot ...
... relations I must fill after a new and un- precedented way . I appeal from your customs . I must be myself . I cannot break myself any longer for you , or you . If you can love me for what I am , we shall be the happier . If you cannot ...
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