Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... tion in history to which there is not somewhat cor- responding in his life . Every thing tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person ...
... tion in history to which there is not somewhat cor- responding in his life . Every thing tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person ...
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... tion of these manners is that they belong to man , and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there are always individ- uals who retain these characteristics . A person of childlike genius and inborn ...
... tion of these manners is that they belong to man , and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there are always individ- uals who retain these characteristics . A person of childlike genius and inborn ...
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... tion , a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God , as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite , the Thebais , and the first Ca- puchins . The priestcraft of the East and West , of the Magian , Brahmin , Druid , and ...
... tion , a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God , as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite , the Thebais , and the first Ca- puchins . The priestcraft of the East and West , of the Magian , Brahmin , Druid , and ...
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... tion of identity through endless mutations of form makes him know the Proteus . What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday , who slept last night like a corpse , and this morning stood and ran ? And what see I on any side but the ...
... tion of identity through endless mutations of form makes him know the Proteus . What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday , who slept last night like a corpse , and this morning stood and ran ? And what see I on any side but the ...
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... tion or alarm ? No man can antedate his experi- ence , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not ...
... tion or alarm ? No man can antedate his experi- ence , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not ...
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