Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... 89 IV . SPIRITUAL LAWS . 123 V. LOVE . 159 · VI . FRIENDSHIP 181 VII . PRUDENCE 207 VIII . HEROISM 231 IX . THE OVER - SOUL 249 X. CIRCLES 279 XI . INTELLECT 301 XII . ART . 325 HISTORY . THERE is no great and no small To.
... 89 IV . SPIRITUAL LAWS . 123 V. LOVE . 159 · VI . FRIENDSHIP 181 VII . PRUDENCE 207 VIII . HEROISM 231 IX . THE OVER - SOUL 249 X. CIRCLES 279 XI . INTELLECT 301 XII . ART . 325 HISTORY . THERE is no great and no small To.
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... friendship and love and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self - reliance . It is remarkable that involuntarily we always read as superior beings . Universal his- tory , the poets , the romancers , do not in their ...
... friendship and love and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self - reliance . It is remarkable that involuntarily we always read as superior beings . Universal his- tory , the poets , the romancers , do not in their ...
Page 170
... friendship or love known and described in society , but , as it seems to me , to a quite other and unattainable sphere , to relations of transcendent del- icacy and sweetness , to what roses and violets hint and foreshow . We cannot ...
... friendship or love known and described in society , but , as it seems to me , to a quite other and unattainable sphere , to relations of transcendent del- icacy and sweetness , to what roses and violets hint and foreshow . We cannot ...
Page 179
... trusted to the end . That which is so beautiful and attractive as these relations , must be succeeded and supplanted only by what is more beautiful , and so on for ever . FRIENDSHIP . A RUDDY drop of manly blood The surging LOVE . 179.
... trusted to the end . That which is so beautiful and attractive as these relations , must be succeeded and supplanted only by what is more beautiful , and so on for ever . FRIENDSHIP . A RUDDY drop of manly blood The surging LOVE . 179.
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