Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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... never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears the commendation , not of himself , but , more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea , further , in every ...
... never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears the commendation , not of himself , but , more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea , further , in every ...
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... never to those who do not respect themselves . I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have resounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is ...
... never to those who do not respect themselves . I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have resounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is ...
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... never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beautifully shines a spirit through the bruteness and tough- ness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it converts all things to ...
... never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beautifully shines a spirit through the bruteness and tough- ness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it converts all things to ...
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... never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the rudiments or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races ; yet in him they enhance his nobleness and grace ; as Io , in Æschylus , transformed to a cow ...
... never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the rudiments or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races ; yet in him they enhance his nobleness and grace ; as Io , in Æschylus , transformed to a cow ...
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... never transgressing the ideal serenity , but in convulsive exertion , the liege of order and of law . Thus , of the genius of one remarkable people we have a fourfold repre- sentation — the most various expression of one moral thing ...
... never transgressing the ideal serenity , but in convulsive exertion , the liege of order and of law . Thus , of the genius of one remarkable people we have a fourfold repre- sentation — the most various expression of one moral thing ...
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