Essays, Volume 1Houghton Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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Page 171
... experience a certain stain of error , whilst that of other men looks fair and ideal . Let any man go back to those delicious relations which make the beauty of his life , which have given him sincerest instruction and nourishment , he ...
... experience a certain stain of error , whilst that of other men looks fair and ideal . Let any man go back to those delicious relations which make the beauty of his life , which have given him sincerest instruction and nourishment , he ...
Page 267
... experiences . For this reason the argument which is always forthcoming to silence those who con- ceive extraordinary hopes of man , namely the appeal to experience , is for ever invalid and vain . We give up the past to the objector ...
... experiences . For this reason the argument which is always forthcoming to silence those who con- ceive extraordinary hopes of man , namely the appeal to experience , is for ever invalid and vain . We give up the past to the objector ...
Page 290
... experience , cull out the pleasing , poetic cir- cumstance , the visit to Rome , the man of genius they saw , the brilliant friend they know ; still further on perhaps the gorgeous landscape , the mountain lights , the mountain thoughts ...
... experience , cull out the pleasing , poetic cir- cumstance , the visit to Rome , the man of genius they saw , the brilliant friend they know ; still further on perhaps the gorgeous landscape , the mountain lights , the mountain thoughts ...
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