Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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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 , Xeno- phon , Plutarch , have given it — a very ...
... 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 , Xeno- phon , Plutarch , have given it — a very ...
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... character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed . In these cav- erns , already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assistance ...
... character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed . In these cav- erns , already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assistance ...
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... character , one fact , makes much impres- sion on him , and another none . It is not with- out pre - established harmony , this sculpture in the memory . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that ...
... character , one fact , makes much impres- sion on him , and another none . It is not with- out pre - established harmony , this sculpture in the memory . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that ...
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... character . If you maintain a dead church , contribute to a dead Bible Society , vote with a great party either for the Government or against it , spread your table like base house keepers - under all these screens I have difficulty to ...
... character . If you maintain a dead church , contribute to a dead Bible Society , vote with a great party either for the Government or against it , spread your table like base house keepers - under all these screens I have difficulty to ...
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