EssaysJ. Munroe, 1841 - 303 pages |
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Page 6
... writes the character of the wise man . All books , monuments , pictures , con- versation , are portraits in which the wise man finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the loud praise him , and accost him , and he is ...
... writes the character of the wise man . All books , monuments , pictures , con- versation , are portraits in which the wise man finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the loud praise him , and accost him , and he is ...
Page 28
... writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dra- matic pieces of the same author , for the ...
... writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dra- matic pieces of the same author , for the ...
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... write our annals - from an ethical reformation , from an influx of the ever new , ever sanative conscience , — if we would truelier express our central and wide - related nature , instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride ...
... write our annals - from an ethical reformation , from an influx of the ever new , ever sanative conscience , — if we would truelier express our central and wide - related nature , instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride ...
Page 42
... ther , when my genius calls me . I would write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day 6 - in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why 42 ESSAY II .
... ther , when my genius calls me . I would write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day 6 - in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why 42 ESSAY II .
Page 69
... writing , thinking American , with a watch , a pencil , and a bill of exchange in his pocket , and the naked New Zealander , whose property is a club , a spear , a mat , and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under . But compare ...
... writing , thinking American , with a watch , a pencil , and a bill of exchange in his pocket , and the naked New Zealander , whose property is a club , a spear , a mat , and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under . But compare ...
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