Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 9
... Stand before each of its tablets and say , " Here is one of my coverings ; under this fantastic , or odious , or grace- ful mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . " This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves ...
... Stand before each of its tablets and say , " Here is one of my coverings ; under this fantastic , or odious , or grace- ful mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . " This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves ...
Page 12
... standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have thus made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immor- tal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way ...
... standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have thus made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immor- tal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way ...
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... stand before every public , every private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon , before a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More , of Sidney , of Marmaduke Robinson ; before a French Reign of Terror , and a Salem ...
... stand before every public , every private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon , before a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More , of Sidney , of Marmaduke Robinson ; before a French Reign of Terror , and a Salem ...
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... stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers all things on their account . But where it departs from the Calvin- istic Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it ...
... stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers all things on their account . But where it departs from the Calvin- istic Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it ...
Page 38
... from it , rather . The idiot , the Indian , the child and unschooled farmer's boy come much nearer to these - under- stand them better than the dissector or the anti- quary . Self Reliance 4 4 1 1 ESSAY II . Self 38 History .
... from it , rather . The idiot , the Indian , the child and unschooled farmer's boy come much nearer to these - under- stand them better than the dissector or the anti- quary . Self Reliance 4 4 1 1 ESSAY II . Self 38 History .
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