EssaysH.M. Caldwell, 1892 |
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Page 19
... rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought . Why covet a knowledge of new facts ? Day and night , house and garden , a few books , a few actions , serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles . We are far from ...
... rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought . Why covet a knowledge of new facts ? Day and night , house and garden , a few books , a few actions , serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles . We are far from ...
Page 38
... rich poets , as Homer , Chaucer , Shakespeare , and Raphael , have obviously no limits to their works , except the limits of their lifetime , and resemble a mirror carried through the street , ready to render an image of every created ...
... rich poets , as Homer , Chaucer , Shakespeare , and Raphael , have obviously no limits to their works , except the limits of their lifetime , and resemble a mirror carried through the street , ready to render an image of every created ...
Page 44
... rich pasturage , and my neighbor has fertile meadow , but my field , ' says the querulous farmer , only holds the world together . ' I quote another man's saying ; unluck- ily , that other withdraws himself in the same way , 6 6 and ...
... rich pasturage , and my neighbor has fertile meadow , but my field , ' says the querulous farmer , only holds the world together . ' I quote another man's saying ; unluck- ily , that other withdraws himself in the same way , 6 6 and ...
Page 92
... rich . Thence comes a new intellectual exaltation , to be again rebuked by some new exhibition of character . Strange alternation of attraction and repulsion ! Character repudiates intellect , yet excites it ; and character passes into ...
... rich . Thence comes a new intellectual exaltation , to be again rebuked by some new exhibition of character . Strange alternation of attraction and repulsion ! Character repudiates intellect , yet excites it ; and character passes into ...
Page 119
... rich men are by no means the most skilful masters of good manners . No rent - roll nor army - list can dignify skulking and dissimulation : and the first point of courtesy must always be truth , as really all the forms of good- breeding ...
... rich men are by no means the most skilful masters of good manners . No rent - roll nor army - list can dignify skulking and dissimulation : and the first point of courtesy must always be truth , as really all the forms of good- breeding ...
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