Essays: First SeriesAltemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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Page 104
... nature engages all things to assume a hostile front to vice . The beautiful laws and substances of the world perse- cute and whip the traitor . He finds that things are arranged for truth and benefit , but there is no den in the wide ...
... nature engages all things to assume a hostile front to vice . The beautiful laws and substances of the world perse- cute and whip the traitor . He finds that things are arranged for truth and benefit , but there is no den in the wide ...
Page 119
... nature is vitiated by any interference of our will . People represent virtue as a struggle , and take to themselves great airs upon their attainments , and the question is everywhere vexed , when a noble nature is com- mended , Whether ...
... nature is vitiated by any interference of our will . People represent virtue as a struggle , and take to themselves great airs upon their attainments , and the question is everywhere vexed , when a noble nature is com- mended , Whether ...
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... nature ; and so these other souls , these separated selves , draw me as nothing else can . They stir in me the new ... nature appearing through them all . Persons themselves acquaint us with the impersonal . In all conversation between ...
... nature ; and so these other souls , these separated selves , draw me as nothing else can . They stir in me the new ... nature appearing through them all . Persons themselves acquaint us with the impersonal . In all conversation between ...
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