Essays: First seriesH. Altemus, 1895 - 322 pages |
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... highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power . Thus all concentrates ; let us not rove ; let us sit at home with the cause . Let us stun and as- tonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a ...
... highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power . Thus all concentrates ; let us not rove ; let us sit at home with the cause . Let us stun and as- tonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a ...
Page 98
... highest criticism . We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period , and was hindered , or , if you will , modified in doing , by the interfering volitions of Phidias , of Dante , of Shakespeare , the organ whereby man ...
... highest criticism . We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period , and was hindered , or , if you will , modified in doing , by the interfering volitions of Phidias , of Dante , of Shakespeare , the organ whereby man ...
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... their relation to each other . He may soon come to see that he had better have broken his own bones than to have ridden in his neighbor's coach , and that “ the highest price he can pay for a thing is to COMPENSATION . ΙΟΙ.
... their relation to each other . He may soon come to see that he had better have broken his own bones than to have ridden in his neighbor's coach , and that “ the highest price he can pay for a thing is to COMPENSATION . ΙΟΙ.
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