Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... 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 that he is greater than all the geography and ...
... 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 that he is greater than all the geography and ...
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... virtue of his being once a child ; beside that always there are individ- uals who retain these characteristics . A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the muse of Hel- las . A great ...
... virtue of his being once a child ; beside that always there are individ- uals who retain these characteristics . A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the muse of Hel- las . A great ...
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... virtue . He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a supersti- tion . A great licentiousness treads on the heels . of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to ...
... virtue . He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a supersti- tion . A great licentiousness treads on the heels . of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to ...
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... virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right di rection . The preternatural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavor of the ...
... virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right di rection . The preternatural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavor of the ...
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... virtue in most request is conformity . Self - reliance is its aversion . It loves not realities and creators , but names and cus- toms . Whoso would be a man must be a nonconform- ist . He who would gather immortal palms must not be ...
... virtue in most request is conformity . Self - reliance is its aversion . It loves not realities and creators , but names and cus- toms . Whoso would be a man must be a nonconform- ist . He who would gather immortal palms must not be ...
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50 cents action ALTEMUS Anna Sewell appear beauty behold better black event Bonduca Cæsar character child Cloth conversation divine effect Epaminondas eternal fable fact fear feel friendship genius gifts give Greek Gustave Dore hand heart heaven heroism highest hour human illustrations intellect John Tenniel KING less light live look lose man's ment mind moral Nathaniel Hawthorne nature never noble object OVER-SOUL painted pass perfect persons Phidias Phocion PILGRIM'S PROGRESS Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry prudence Quo Vadis relations religion secret seek seems seen sense society Sophocles soul speak spirit stand sweet SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON talent teach thee things thou thought tion to-day to-morrow true truth uncon universal virtue whilst whole wisdom wise wonderful words Xenophon young youth