The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 12
... look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all conform to it , so that one babe com- monly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it . So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no ...
... look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all conform to it , so that one babe com- monly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it . So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no ...
Page 23
... look but at one side ; the permitted side , not as a man , but as a parish minister ? He is a retained attorney , and these airs of the bench are the emptiest affec- tation . Well , most men have bound their eyes with one or another ...
... look but at one side ; the permitted side , not as a man , but as a parish minister ? He is a retained attorney , and these airs of the bench are the emptiest affec- tation . Well , most men have bound their eyes with one or another ...
Page 25
... look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlor . If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own , he might well go home with a sad countenance ; but the sour faces of the multitude , like ...
... look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlor . If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own , he might well go home with a sad countenance ; but the sour faces of the multitude , like ...
Page 35
... looks on these . To him a palace , a statue , or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air , much like a gay equipage , and seem to say like that , " Who are you , sir ? " Yet they all are his , suitors for his notice , petitioners ...
... looks on these . To him a palace , a statue , or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air , much like a gay equipage , and seem to say like that , " Who are you , sir ? " Yet they all are his , suitors for his notice , petitioners ...
Page 51
... better than any preaching How far off , how cool , how chaste the persons look , begirt each one with a precinct or sanct- uary . So let us always sit Why should we assume the faults of our friend , or wife , or father , or child 51.
... better than any preaching How far off , how cool , how chaste the persons look , begirt each one with a precinct or sanct- uary . So let us always sit Why should we assume the faults of our friend , or wife , or father , or child 51.
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