Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 13
... sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea further in every fact and circumstance , — in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from ...
... sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea further in every fact and circumstance , — in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from ...
Page 54
... sweet , and not to need diet and bleed- ing . I ask primary evidence that you are a man , and refuse this appeal from the man to his actions . I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are ...
... sweet , and not to need diet and bleed- ing . I ask primary evidence that you are a man , and refuse this appeal from the man to his actions . I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are ...
Page 57
... sweet faces , have no deep cause , but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs . Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college . It is easy enough for a firm man who ...
... sweet faces , have no deep cause , but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs . Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college . It is easy enough for a firm man who ...
Page 68
... sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn . And now at last the highest truth on this subject remains unsaid ; probably cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far - off remembering of the intui- tion . That ...
... sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn . And now at last the highest truth on this subject remains unsaid ; probably cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far - off remembering of the intui- tion . That ...
Page 95
... of man . Every excess causes a defect ; every defect an excess . Every sweet hath its sour ; every evil its good . Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse . COMPENSATION . 95.
... of man . Every excess causes a defect ; every defect an excess . Every sweet hath its sour ; every evil its good . Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse . COMPENSATION . 95.
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