EssaysH.M. Caldwell, 1892 |
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Page 9
... conversation they have had with nature . There is no man who does not an- ticipate a supersensual utility in the sun , and stars , earth , and water . These stand and wait to render him a peculiar service . But there is some obstruc ...
... conversation they have had with nature . There is no man who does not an- ticipate a supersensual utility in the sun , and stars , earth , and water . These stand and wait to render him a peculiar service . But there is some obstruc ...
Page 12
... conversation the other day , concerning a recent writer of lyrics , a man of subtle mind , whose head appeared to be a music - box of delicate tunes and rhythms , and whose skill , and command of language we could not sufficiently ...
... conversation the other day , concerning a recent writer of lyrics , a man of subtle mind , whose head appeared to be a music - box of delicate tunes and rhythms , and whose skill , and command of language we could not sufficiently ...
Page 19
... conversation . What would be base , or even obscene , to the obscene , becomes illustrious , spoken in a new connection of thought . The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness . The circumcision is an example of the power ...
... conversation . What would be base , or even obscene , to the obscene , becomes illustrious , spoken in a new connection of thought . The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness . The circumcision is an example of the power ...
Page 27
... conversation , music , pictures , sculp- ture , dancing , theatres , travelling , war , mobs , fires , gaming , politics , or love , or science , or animal in- toxication , which are several coarser or finer quasi - mechanical ...
... conversation , music , pictures , sculp- ture , dancing , theatres , travelling , war , mobs , fires , gaming , politics , or love , or science , or animal in- toxication , which are several coarser or finer quasi - mechanical ...
Page 31
... conversation , the magic of liberty , which puts the world , like a ball , in our hands . How cheap even the liberty then seems ; how mean to study , when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature ...
... conversation , the magic of liberty , which puts the world , like a ball , in our hands . How cheap even the liberty then seems ; how mean to study , when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature ...
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