Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 9
... 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 , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things ...
... 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 , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things ...
Page 10
... lose our ear , any- where make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads ...
... lose our ear , any- where make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads ...
Page 12
... what it does not live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular con- venience , it will lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule 12 History .
... what it does not live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular con- venience , it will lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule 12 History .
Page 45
... lose all pledge and , having observed , observe again from the same unaffected , unbiased , un- bribable , unaffrighted innocence , must always be formidable , must always engage the poet's and the man's regards . Of such an immortal ...
... lose all pledge and , having observed , observe again from the same unaffected , unbiased , un- bribable , unaffrighted innocence , must always be formidable , must always engage the poet's and the man's regards . Of such an immortal ...
Page 48
... loses your time and blurs the impres sion of your 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 ...
... loses your time and blurs the impres sion of your 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 ...
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