Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 11
... virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit at home with might and main and not suffer him- self to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and ...
... virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit at home with might and main and not suffer him- self to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and ...
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... virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteristics . A person of child- like genius and inborn energy is still a Greek and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas . A great boy ...
... virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteristics . A person of child- like genius and inborn energy is still a Greek and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas . A great boy ...
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... virtue . He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a supersti- tion . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to ...
... virtue . He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a supersti- tion . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to ...
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... virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction . The preternatural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavor of the ...
... virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction . The preternatural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavor of the ...
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... virtue in most request is conformity . Self - reliance is its aversion . It loves not realities and creators , but names and customs . Whoso would be a man must be a noncon- formist . He who would gather immortal palms must not be ...
... virtue in most request is conformity . Self - reliance is its aversion . It loves not realities and creators , but names and customs . Whoso would be a man must be a noncon- formist . He who would gather immortal palms must not be ...
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