Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... Phocion ? Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet ...
... Phocion ? Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet ...
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... Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are great men , but they leave no class . He who is really of their class will not be called by their name , but will be his own man , and in his turn the founder of a sect . The arts and ...
... Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are great men , but they leave no class . He who is really of their class will not be called by their name , but will be his own man , and in his turn the founder of a sect . The arts and ...
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... Phocion , when he admitted that the event of the battle was happy , yet did not regret his dissuasion from the battle . ― — There is no weakness or exposure for which we cannot find consolation in the thought this is a part of my ...
... Phocion , when he admitted that the event of the battle was happy , yet did not regret his dissuasion from the battle . ― — There is no weakness or exposure for which we cannot find consolation in the thought this is a part of my ...
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