Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is History , " said Napoleon , " but a fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul , England , War ...
... heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is History , " said Napoleon , " but a fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul , England , War ...
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... heaven had sent its in- sane angels into our world as to an asylum , and here they will break out into their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven ; then the mad fit returns , and they mope and wallow ...
... heaven had sent its in- sane angels into our world as to an asylum , and here they will break out into their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven ; then the mad fit returns , and they mope and wallow ...
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... heaven - facing speakers . Ah , brother , hold fast to the man and awe the beast ; stop the ebb of thy soul - ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old ...
... heaven - facing speakers . Ah , brother , hold fast to the man and awe the beast ; stop the ebb of thy soul - ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old ...
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... heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we can- not strongly state one ...
... heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we can- not strongly state one ...
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... Heaven ! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm which for weeks has done nothing but eat when you were by , that now rolls out these words like bell - strokes . It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries ...
... Heaven ! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm which for weeks has done nothing but eat when you were by , that now rolls out these words like bell - strokes . It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries ...
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