Essays: First SeriesPhillips, Sampson, 1854 - 333 pages |
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... virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the ...
... virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the ...
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... virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteris- tics . A person of childlike genius and inborn energy - - is still a Greek , and revives our love of HISTORY . 23.
... virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteris- tics . A person of childlike genius and inborn energy - - is still a Greek , and revives our love of HISTORY . 23.
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... virtue . He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition . A great licen- tiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Lu- ther of the day had to ...
... virtue . He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition . A great licen- tiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Lu- ther of the day had to ...
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... virtues of minerals , of understand- ing the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction . The preternatural prow- ess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavour of ...
... virtues of minerals , of understand- ing the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction . The preternatural prow- ess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavour of ...
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... virtue in most request is conformity . Self - reliance is its aversion . It loves not realities and creators , but names and customs . Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist . He who would gather immortal palms must not be ...
... virtue in most request is conformity . Self - reliance is its aversion . It loves not realities and creators , but names and customs . Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist . He who would gather immortal palms must not be ...
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