Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1892 - 322 pages |
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... character . We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom , power and grace which we feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by stoic or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each ...
... character . We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom , power and grace which we feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by stoic or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each ...
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... 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 nature , from ...
... 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 nature , from ...
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... character . See the variety of the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . Thus at first we have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , Plutarch have given it a very sufficient ...
... character . See the variety of the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . Thus at first we have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , Plutarch have given it a very sufficient ...
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... character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed . In these caverns already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assistance of ...
... character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed . In these caverns already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assistance of ...
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... character , one fact makes much impression on him , and another none . It is not without pre - established harmony , this sculpture in the memory . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that par ...
... character , one fact makes much impression on him , and another none . It is not without pre - established harmony , this sculpture in the memory . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that par ...
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