Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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Page 32
... thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to sit in the road - side and put riddles to every passenger . If the man could not answer , she swallowed him alive . If ...
... thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to sit in the road - side and put riddles to every passenger . If the man could not answer , she swallowed him alive . If ...
Page 51
... thou- sand miles off . Thy love afar is spite at home . ' Rough and graceless would be such greeting , but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love . Your goodness must have some edge to it , - else it is none . The doctrine of ...
... thou- sand miles off . Thy love afar is spite at home . ' Rough and graceless would be such greeting , but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love . Your goodness must have some edge to it , - else it is none . The doctrine of ...
Page 52
... thou foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the dollar , the dime , the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong . There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ...
... thou foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the dollar , the dime , the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong . There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ...
Page 79
... thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . ' Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God . Every new ...
... thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . ' Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God . Every new ...
Page 84
... 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 society , and no man improves . Society never ...
... 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 society , and no man improves . Society never ...
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