Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1892 - 322 pages |
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Page 24
... truth to which that fact or series belongs . The primeval world , the Fore - World , as the Germans say , I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in cata- combs , libraries , and the broken reliefs ...
... truth to which that fact or series belongs . The primeval world , the Fore - World , as the Germans say , I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in cata- combs , libraries , and the broken reliefs ...
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... truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a percep- tion , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were , run into one , why should I measure degrees of ...
... truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a percep- tion , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were , run into one , why should I measure degrees of ...
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... truth finds like them new perils to virtue . He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a supersti- tion . A great licentiousness treads on the heels . of a reformation . How many times in the history of the ...
... truth finds like them new perils to virtue . He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a supersti- tion . A great licentiousness treads on the heels . of a reformation . How many times in the history of the ...
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... truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes , why should I not say to him ...
... truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes , why should I not say to him ...
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... false in a few particulars , authors of a few lies , but false in all particulars . Their every truth is not quite true . Their two is not the real two , their four not the real four : so that every word they SELF - RELIANCE . 51.
... false in a few particulars , authors of a few lies , but false in all particulars . Their every truth is not quite true . Their two is not the real two , their four not the real four : so that every word they SELF - RELIANCE . 51.
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