EssaysJ. Munroe, 1841 - 303 pages |
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... good soul , therefore , never needs look for allu- sions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears the commendation , not of himself , but more sweet , of - that character he seeks , in every word that 6 ESSAY 1 .
... good soul , therefore , never needs look for allu- sions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears the commendation , not of himself , but more sweet , of - that character he seeks , in every word that 6 ESSAY 1 .
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... never to those who do not respect themselves . I have no expectation that any man will read history aright , who thinks that what was done in'a remote age , by men whose names have resounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is ...
... never to those who do not respect themselves . I have no expectation that any man will read history aright , who thinks that what was done in'a remote age , by men whose names have resounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is ...
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... never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beautifully shines a spirit through the bruteness and toughness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it con HISTORY . 11.
... never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beautifully shines a spirit through the bruteness and toughness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it con HISTORY . 11.
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... never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the ru- diments or hints of all that we esteem badges of ser- vitude in the lower races , yet in him they enhance his nobleness and grace ; as Io , in Æschylus , transformed to a ...
... never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the ru- diments or hints of all that we esteem badges of ser- vitude in the lower races , yet in him they enhance his nobleness and grace ; as Io , in Æschylus , transformed to a ...
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... never transgressing the ideal serenity , but in convulsive exertion the liege of order and of law . Thus , of the genius of one remarkable people , we have a fourfold representation , the most various expression of one moral thing : and ...
... never transgressing the ideal serenity , but in convulsive exertion the liege of order and of law . Thus , of the genius of one remarkable people , we have a fourfold representation , the most various expression of one moral thing : and ...
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