Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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... actions into perspective , and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance and the waterpot lose their mean- ness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the dis- tant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades ...
... actions into perspective , and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance and the waterpot lose their mean- ness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the dis- tant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades ...
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... action in history to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life . Every thing tends in a wonderful manner to abbre- viate itself and yield its own virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person ...
... action in history to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life . Every thing tends in a wonderful manner to abbre- viate 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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... action and never transgressing the deal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods ... actions of Phocion ? 1 I Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a ...
... action and never transgressing the deal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods ... actions of Phocion ? 1 I Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a ...
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... actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . I A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ...
... actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . I A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ...
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... actions and words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . ― Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from indi ...
... actions and words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . ― Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from indi ...
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action Amadis de Gaul appear beauty behold better Bonduca Boston character CHARLES ELIOT NORTON circle conversation divine doctrine earth Epaminondas essay eternal evil experience fact fear feel friendship genius George Willis Cooke give hand heart heaven Heraclitus Heroism hour human intellect John Sterling lecture less light live look man's ment mind moral nature ness never noble object Over-Soul painted pass Perceforest perfect persons Phidias Phocion Plato Plotinus Plutarch Poems poet poetry Polycrates prudence Pyrrhonism Ralph Waldo Emerson relations religion sculpture secret seems sense Shakspeare society Sophocles soul speak spirit stand sweet Synesius talent teach thee things thou thought tion to-day true truth ture universal virtue WALDO EMERSON whilst whole William Ellery Channing wisdom words write Xenophon young youth