Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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Page 10
... loud praise him , and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves as by personal allusions . A wise and good soul , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears 10 ESSAY I.
... loud praise him , and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves as by personal allusions . A wise and good soul , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears 10 ESSAY I.
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... look at it , its outline and texture are changed altogether . Nothing is so fleeting as form . Yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the rudiments or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower ...
... look at it , its outline and texture are changed altogether . Nothing is so fleeting as form . Yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the rudiments or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower ...
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... looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art , and the history of literature , -all must be ex- plained from ...
... looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art , and the history of literature , -all must be ex- plained from ...
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... look down on the word or gesture of a child . It is as great as they . The attraction of these manners is , that they belong to man , and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child ; beside that always there are individ ...
... look down on the word or gesture of a child . It is as great as they . The attraction of these manners is , that they belong to man , and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child ; beside that always there are individ ...
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... means opposed to our purpose , these have not . Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet uncon- quered , and when we look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody ; all conform to SELF - RELIANCE . 45.
... means opposed to our purpose , these have not . Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet uncon- quered , and when we look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody ; all conform to SELF - RELIANCE . 45.
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