Essays: First SeriesUnited States Book Company, 1899 - 326 pages |
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Page 11
... sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea further in every fact that befalls , —in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute ...
... sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea further in every fact that befalls , —in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute ...
Page 50
... sweet , and not to need diet and bleeding . My life should be unique ; it should be an alms , a battle , a conquest , a medicine . I ask primary evidence that you are a man , and refuse this appeal from the man to his actions . I know ...
... sweet , and not to need diet and bleeding . My life should be unique ; it should be an alms , a battle , a conquest , a medicine . I ask primary evidence that you are a man , and refuse this appeal from the man to his actions . I know ...
Page 52
... sweet faces , have no deep cause - disguise no god , but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs . Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college . It is easy enough ...
... sweet faces , have no deep cause - disguise no god , but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs . Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college . It is easy enough ...
Page 63
... sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn . And now at last the highest truth on this subject remains unsaid ; probably cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far off remembering of the intui- tion . That thought ...
... sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn . And now at last the highest truth on this subject remains unsaid ; probably cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far off remembering of the intui- tion . That thought ...
Page 89
... sweet hath its sour ; every evil its good . Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse . It is to answer for its moderation with its life . For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly . For ...
... sweet hath its sour ; every evil its good . Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse . It is to answer for its moderation with its life . For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly . For ...
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