Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1892 - 322 pages |
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Page 10
... the loud . praise him , and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves as by personal allusions . A wise and good soul , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears 10 ESSAY I.
... the loud . praise him , and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves as by personal allusions . A wise and good soul , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears 10 ESSAY I.
Page 11
... never to those who do not respect themselves . I have no expectation that any man will read history aright , who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names , have resounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is ...
... never to those who do not respect themselves . I have no expectation that any man will read history aright , who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names , have resounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is ...
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... never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beauti- fully shines a spirit through the bruteness and toughness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it con- verts all things ...
... never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beauti- fully shines a spirit through the bruteness and toughness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it con- verts all things ...
Page 17
... never over- stepping the limit of charming propriety and grace . Then we have it once more in sculpture , - the tongue on the balance of expression , " those forms in every action , at every age of life , rang- ing through all the scale ...
... never over- stepping the limit of charming propriety and grace . Then we have it once more in sculpture , - the tongue on the balance of expression , " those forms in every action , at every age of life , rang- ing through all the scale ...
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... flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian Court in its magnificent era never gave over the Nomadism of its barbarous tribes , but traveled from Ecbatana , where the spring was spent , to Susa in summer , and 22 ESSAY I.
... flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian Court in its magnificent era never gave over the Nomadism of its barbarous tribes , but traveled from Ecbatana , where the spring was spent , to Susa in summer , and 22 ESSAY I.
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