Essays, Volume 1Houghton Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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... conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves , as by personal allusions . A true aspirant therefore never ...
... conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves , as by personal allusions . A true aspirant therefore never ...
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... conversation and action with such a man , and are uneasy with fear . The same idea exalts conversation with him . We talk better than we are wont . We have the nimblest fancy , a richer memory , and our dumb devil has taken leave for ...
... conversation and action with such a man , and are uneasy with fear . The same idea exalts conversation with him . We talk better than we are wont . We have the nimblest fancy , a richer memory , and our dumb devil has taken leave for ...
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... conversation , as if it were a permanent property in some indi- viduals . Conversation is an evanescent relation , -no more . A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence ; he cannot , for all that , say a word to his cousin or his ...
... conversation , as if it were a permanent property in some indi- viduals . Conversation is an evanescent relation , -no more . A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence ; he cannot , for all that , say a word to his cousin or his ...
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