Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... conversation , are portraits in which the wise man finds the linea- ments he is forming . The silent and the loud praise him , and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves as by personal allusions . A wise and good soul ...
... conversation , are portraits in which the wise man finds the linea- ments he is forming . The silent and the loud praise him , and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves as by personal allusions . A wise and good soul ...
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... conversation with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry to un- fix , and as it were , clap wings to all solid nature , interprets the riddle of Orpheus , which was to his childhood an idle tale . The philosophical percep ...
... conversation with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry to un- fix , and as it were , clap wings to all solid nature , interprets the riddle of Orpheus , which was to his childhood an idle tale . The philosophical percep ...
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... conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spontaneously moved , but moved by a low usurping wilfulness , grow tight about the outline of the face and make the most disagreeable sensation , a sensation of re- buke and ...
... conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spontaneously moved , but moved by a low usurping wilfulness , grow tight about the outline of the face and make the most disagreeable sensation , a sensation of re- buke and ...
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... conversation , would probably be questioned in silence . If a man dogmatize in a mixed com- pany on Providence and the divine laws , he is an- swered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the ...
... conversation , would probably be questioned in silence . If a man dogmatize in a mixed com- pany on Providence and the divine laws , he is an- swered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the ...
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... conversation . It finds a tongue in literature unawares . Thus the Greeks called Jupiter , Su- preme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions , they involuntarily made amends to Reason , by tying up the hands of ...
... conversation . It finds a tongue in literature unawares . Thus the Greeks called Jupiter , Su- preme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions , they involuntarily made amends to Reason , by tying up the hands of ...
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