Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 10
... writes the character of the wise man . All books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the loud praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he ...
... writes the character of the wise man . All books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the loud praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he ...
Page 32
... writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet it is much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the ...
... writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet it is much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the ...
Page 37
... they for the Esquimaux seal - hunter , for the Kanaka in his canoe , for the fisherman , the stevedore , the porter ? Broader and deeper we must write our annals , - from an ethical reformation , from an influx of the History . 37.
... they for the Esquimaux seal - hunter , for the Kanaka in his canoe , for the fisherman , the stevedore , the porter ? Broader and deeper we must write our annals , - from an ethical reformation , from an influx of the History . 37.
Page 47
... write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then , again , do not tell ...
... write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then , again , do not tell ...
Page 74
... writing , thinking American , with a watch , a pencil and a bill of exchange in his pocket , and the naked New Zealander , whose property is a club , a spear , a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under . But compare the ...
... writing , thinking American , with a watch , a pencil and a bill of exchange in his pocket , and the naked New Zealander , whose property is a club , a spear , a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under . But compare the ...
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