Essays: First SeriesUnited States Book Company, 1899 - 326 pages |
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Page 15
... seen how it could and must be . We have the sufficient reason . The difference between men is in their principle of association . Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic ...
... seen how it could and must be . We have the sufficient reason . The difference between men is in their principle of association . Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic ...
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... seen the head of an old sachem of the for- est which at once reminded the eye of a bald moun- tain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose man- ners have the same essential splendor as ...
... seen the head of an old sachem of the for- est which at once reminded the eye of a bald moun- tain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose man- ners have the same essential splendor as ...
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... seen without heed . Let me add a few examples , such as fall within the scope of every man's observation , of trivial facts which go to il- lustrate great and conspicuous facts . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me ...
... seen without heed . Let me add a few examples , such as fall within the scope of every man's observation , of trivial facts which go to il- lustrate great and conspicuous facts . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me ...
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... seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once revealed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which ...
... seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once revealed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which ...
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... seen through the bare and crossing branches of the for- est . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feel- ing that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his ...
... seen through the bare and crossing branches of the for- est . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feel- ing that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his ...
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