Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... character of the wise man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the ... character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea further in every fact and circumstance , — in ...
... character of the wise man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the ... character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea further in every fact and circumstance , — in ...
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... character ! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient ac- count of what ...
... character ! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient ac- count of what ...
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... character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed . In these cav- erns , already prepared by nature , the eye was ac- customed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the ...
... character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed . In these cav- erns , already prepared by nature , the eye was ac- customed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the ...
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... character , one fact , makes much impression on him , and another none . This sculpture in the memory is not with- out preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that particular ray ...
... character , one fact , makes much impression on him , and another none . This sculpture in the memory is not with- out preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that particular ray ...
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... character . If you maintain a dead church , contrib- ute to a dead Bible - society , vote with a great party either for the government or against it , spread your table like base housekeepers , under all these screens I have difficulty ...
... character . If you maintain a dead church , contrib- ute to a dead Bible - society , vote with a great party either for the government or against it , spread your table like base housekeepers , under all these screens I have difficulty ...
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