Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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... word that is said concerning character , yea further in every fact and circum- stance , — in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute nature , from the mountains and the ...
... word that is said concerning character , yea further in every fact and circum- stance , — in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute nature , from the mountains and the ...
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... words there is properly no history , only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , - must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know . What the former age has ...
... words there is properly no history , only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , - must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know . What the former age has ...
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... 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- vidual history ...
... 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- vidual history ...
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... words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait , as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer ...
... words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait , as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer ...
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... word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zoroaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domésticate themselves in the mind . I cannot find any an- tiquity in them . They are mine as much as ... words and forms of whose influence 28 HISTORY .
... word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zoroaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domésticate themselves in the mind . I cannot find any an- tiquity in them . They are mine as much as ... words and forms of whose influence 28 HISTORY .
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