Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1895 - 290 pages |
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Page 14
... wise man man , proper to us . by Stoic , or Oriental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literature writes the character of the wise nian . Books , monuments ...
... wise man man , proper to us . by Stoic , or Oriental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literature writes the character of the wise nian . Books , monuments ...
Page 34
... wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic , and all ...
... wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic , and all ...
Page 37
... wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read . You shall make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have described ...
... wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read . You shall make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have described ...
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... wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . - I suppose no man can violate his nature . All the sal- lies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being , as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are ...
... wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . - I suppose no man can violate his nature . All the sal- lies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being , as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are ...
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... wise man stays at home , and when his necessities , his duties , on any occasion , call him from his house , or into foreign lands , he is at home still , and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance , that he goes ...
... wise man stays at home , and when his necessities , his duties , on any occasion , call him from his house , or into foreign lands , he is at home still , and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance , that he goes ...
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