Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 9
... actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance and the water - pot lose all their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon ...
... actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance and the water - pot lose all their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon ...
Page 11
... action in history to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life . Every thing tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its whole virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person ...
... action in history to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life . Every thing tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its whole virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person ...
Page 16
... charming pro- priety 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 , ranging through all the scale of 16 History .
... charming pro- priety 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 , ranging through all the scale of 16 History .
Page 17
... actions of Phocion ? Yet do these varied external ex- pressions proceed from one national mind . Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular ...
... actions of Phocion ? Yet do these varied external ex- pressions proceed from one national mind . Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular ...
Page 18
... actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ...
... actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ...
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