Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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Page 14
... noble- ness and grace ; as Io , in Æschylus , transformed to a cow , offends the imagination ; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osi- ris - Jove , a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar ...
... noble- ness and grace ; as Io , in Æschylus , transformed to a cow , offends the imagination ; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osi- ris - Jove , a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar ...
Page 63
... noble , or the great proprietor to walk among them by a law of his own , make his own scale of men and things and reverse theirs , pay for benefits not with money but with honor , and represent the law in his person , was the ...
... noble , or the great proprietor to walk among them by a law of his own , make his own scale of men and things and reverse theirs , pay for benefits not with money but with honor , and represent the law in his person , was the ...
Page 73
... noble , I will love you ; if you are not , I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions . If you are true , but not in the same truth with me , cleave to your companions ; I will seek my own . I do this not selfishly but ...
... noble , I will love you ; if you are not , I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions . If you are true , but not in the same truth with me , cleave to your companions ; I will seek my own . I do this not selfishly but ...
Page 84
... noble regions of thy life , obey thy heart , and thou shalt repro- duce the Foreworld again . 4. As our Religion , our Education , our Art look abroad , so does our spirit of society . All men plume themselves on the improvement of ...
... noble regions of thy life , obey thy heart , and thou shalt repro- duce the Foreworld again . 4. As our Religion , our Education , our Art look abroad , so does our spirit of society . All men plume themselves on the improvement of ...
Page 112
... noble asceticism and vicarious virtue , are the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man . Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along , and that a man ...
... noble asceticism and vicarious virtue , are the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man . Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along , and that a man ...
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