Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 25
... speak simply , -speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the an tique is not admiration of the old , but of the ...
... speak simply , -speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the an tique is not admiration of the old , but of the ...
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... speak ; and the like I find true in Concord , however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne . Is it otherwise in the newest romance ? I read the Bride of Lammermoor . Sir William Ashton is a mask for a vulgar temptation , Ravenswood ...
... speak ; and the like I find true in Concord , however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne . Is it otherwise in the newest romance ? I read the Bride of Lammermoor . Sir William Ashton is a mask for a vulgar temptation , Ravenswood ...
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... Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost - and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment . Familiar as the voice of the mind is to ...
... Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost - and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment . Familiar as the voice of the mind is to ...
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... speak the utmost syllable of his confession . We but half express ourselves and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents . It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues , so it be faith- fully imparted ...
... speak the utmost syllable of his confession . We but half express ourselves and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents . It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues , so it be faith- fully imparted ...
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... speak to you and me . Hark ! in the next room who spoke so clear and emphatic ? seems he knows how to speak to his contempo- raries . Good Heaven ! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm which for weeks has done ...
... speak to you and me . Hark ! in the next room who spoke so clear and emphatic ? seems he knows how to speak to his contempo- raries . Good Heaven ! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm which for weeks has done ...
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