Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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Page 28
... fear and obedience , and even much sympathy with the tyranny , -is a familiar fact , explained to the child when he be- comes a man , only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and ...
... fear and obedience , and even much sympathy with the tyranny , -is a familiar fact , explained to the child when he be- comes a man , only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and ...
Page 49
... fear . " These are the voices which we hear in soli- tude , but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world . Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock ...
... fear . " These are the voices which we hear in soli- tude , but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world . Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock ...
Page 69
... Fear and hope are alike beneath it . There is some- what low even in hope . In the hour of vision there is nothing that can be called gratitude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion be- holds identity and eternal causation ...
... Fear and hope are alike beneath it . There is some- what low even in hope . In the hour of vision there is nothing that can be called gratitude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion be- holds identity and eternal causation ...
Page 72
... fear , want , charity , all knock at once at thy closet door and say , ' Come out unto us . ' But keep thy state ; come not into their confusion . The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity . No man can come near ...
... fear , want , charity , all knock at once at thy closet door and say , ' Come out unto us . ' But keep thy state ; come not into their confusion . The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity . No man can come near ...
Page 89
... fear from her rotations . A political victory , a rise of rents , the recovery of your sick or the return . of your absent friend , or some other favorable event raises your spirits , and you think good days 83 89 SELF - RELIANCE.
... fear from her rotations . A political victory , a rise of rents , the recovery of your sick or the return . of your absent friend , or some other favorable event raises your spirits , and you think good days 83 89 SELF - RELIANCE.
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