Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 17
... seen how it could and must be . We have the sufficient reason . The difference between men is in their principle of association . Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic ...
... seen how it could and must be . We have the sufficient reason . The difference between men is in their principle of association . Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic ...
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... unexpected quarters . I have seen the head of an old sachem of the for- est which at once reminded the eye of a bald moun- tain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose 20 HISTORY .
... unexpected quarters . I have seen the head of an old sachem of the for- est which at once reminded the eye of a bald moun- tain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose 20 HISTORY .
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... day is always verifying some old prediction to us and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods 22 HISTORY .
... day is always verifying some old prediction to us and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods 22 HISTORY .
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... seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously ...
... seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously ...
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... seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals , with- out feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his ...
... seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals , with- out feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his ...
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