Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... manner to abbreviate itself and yield its whole 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 himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know ...
... manner to abbreviate itself and yield its whole 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 himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know ...
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... manners have the same essential splen- dor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon , and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ...
... manners have the same essential splen- dor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon , and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ...
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... 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 individual ...
... 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 individual ...
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. is in courtesy . A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add . The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. is in courtesy . A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add . The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction ...
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... manner all public facts are to be indi- vidualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian im- itated in the slender shafts and capitals ...
... manner all public facts are to be indi- vidualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian im- itated in the slender shafts and capitals ...
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