Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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... Phocion ? 1 I Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A par- ticular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will ...
... Phocion ? 1 I Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A par- ticular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will ...
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... Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Dioge- nes , are great men , but they leave no class . He who is really of their class will not be called by their name , but will be his own man , and in his turn the founder of a sect . The arts and ...
... Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Dioge- nes , are great men , but they leave no class . He who is really of their class will not be called by their name , but will be his own man , and in his turn the founder of a sect . The arts and ...
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... regard its past action with the calm- ness of Phocion , when he admitted that the event of the battle was happy , yet did not re- gret his dissuasion from the battle . There is no weakness or exposure for which we cannot 260 HEROISM.
... regard its past action with the calm- ness of Phocion , when he admitted that the event of the battle was happy , yet did not re- gret his dissuasion from the battle . There is no weakness or exposure for which we cannot 260 HEROISM.
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