Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 8
... drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours ...
... drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours ...
Page 18
... draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely , -but , by watching for a time his motions . and plays , the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in ...
... draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely , -but , by watching for a time his motions . and plays , the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in ...
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... draws us because we are Greeks . It is a state through which every man in some sort passes . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , -of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the ...
... draws us because we are Greeks . It is a state through which every man in some sort passes . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , -of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the ...
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... draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to- morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts ...
... draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to- morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts ...
Page 66
... drawn out , and we are be- come timorous , desponding whimperers . We are afraid of truth , afraid of fortune , afraid of death , and afraid of each other . Our age yields no great and perfect persons . We want men and women who shall ...
... drawn out , and we are be- come timorous , desponding whimperers . We are afraid of truth , afraid of fortune , afraid of death , and afraid of each other . Our age yields no great and perfect persons . We want men and women who shall ...
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